Full Description
In Eastern Métis, Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, and Siomonn Pulla demonstrate the historical and social evidence for the origins and continued existence of Métis communities across Ontario, Quebec, and the Canadian Maritimes as well as the West. Contributors to this edited collection explore archival and historical records that challenge narratives which exclude the possibility of Métis communities and identities in central and eastern Canada. Taking a continental rhizomatic approach, this book provides a rich and nuanced view of what it means to be Métis.
Contents
Chapter 1: Symbolic Violence against the "Other Métis": The Making of a New Forgotten People in Canada
Chapter 2: Political Ontologies in Turmoil: Métis "Neo-Nationalism" and the "Other Métis"
Chapter 3: The Languages of the Métis in Canada
Chapter 4: Situating Nova Scotia Métis Identities in a Colonial Past
Chapter 5: The Acadian Métis on the Geographic and Social Margins
Chapter 6: Métissage and Métis Identity in the Gaspé Peninsula: From Its
Origins to the 1886 Paspébiac Riots
Chapter 7: Undercoat Communities: The Geohistorical Scaling of Métis Identity in the East
Chapter 8: "The Lowest Race of Any in Canada": Mitifs from the Fur Trade and the Voyageurs Parishes of St. Lawrence Valley
Chapter 9: Understanding the Impacts of a Transitional and Mixed Regional Economy on the Emergence of the Historic Métis of Mattawa
Chapter 10 : The Voyageur Métis of Penetanguishene: An Examination of the Ethnohistory of the Métis in Ontario
Chapter 11: The Story of French Canadian Métis Voyageur Joseph Dussa
