Metis Legacy

Metis Legacy
Author: Louis Riel Institute
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2001
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Focuses on the Métis in Canada but also includes some articles and annotated references on the Métis in the United States.

Metis Legacy

Metis Legacy
Author: Lawrence J. Barkwell
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2001-01
Genre: Métis
ISBN: 9781894717038

Focuses on the Métis in Canada but also includes some articles and annotated references on the Métis in the United States.

Métis in Canada

Métis in Canada
Author: Christopher Adams
Publisher: University of Alberta
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0888646402

Twelve essays look at Canadian Métis today in terms of history, identity, law, and politics.

Metis Pioneers

Metis Pioneers
Author: Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Publisher: University of Alberta
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772123617

In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women’s acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.

A Legacy of Exploitation

A Legacy of Exploitation
Author: Susan Dianne Brophy
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774866381

The Red River Colony was the Hudson’s Bay Company’s first planned settlement. As a settler-colonial project par excellence, it was designed to undercut Indigenous peoples’ “troublesome” autonomy and curtain the company’s dependency on their labour. In this critical re-evaluation of the history of the Red River Colony, Susan Dianne Brophy upends standard accounts by foregrounding Indigenous producers as a driving force of change. A Legacy of Exploitation challenges the enduring yet misleading fantasy of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers, showing how autonomy can become distorted as complicity in processes of dispossession.

Métis Rising

Métis Rising
Author: Yvonne Boyer
Publisher: Purich Books
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2022-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774880775

Métis Rising presents a remarkable cross-section of perspectives to demonstrate that there is no single Métis experience – only a common sense of belonging and a commitment to justice. The contributors to this unique collection, most of whom are Métis themselves, offer accounts ranging from personal reflections on identity to tales of advocacy against poverty and poor housing, and for the recognition of Métis rights. This extraordinary work exemplifies how contemporary Métis identity has been forged into a force to be reckoned with.

Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies

Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies
Author: André Lecours
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0228007453

Constitutional politics is exceptionally intense and unpredictable. It involves negotiations over the very nature of the state and the implications of self- determination. Multinational democracies face pressing challenges to the existing order because they are composed of communities with distinct cultures, histories, and aspirations, striving to coexist under mutually agreed-upon terms. Conflict over the recognition of these multiple identities and the distribution of power and resources is inevitable and, indeed, part of what defines democratic life in multinational societies. In Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies André Lecours, Nikola Brassard-Dion, and Guy Laforest bring together experts on multinational democracies to analyze the claims of minority nations about their political future and the responses they elicit through constitutional politics. Essays focus on the nature of these states and the actors and political process within them. This framework allows for a multidimensional examination of crucial political periods in these democracies by assessing what constitutional politics is, who is involved in it, and how it happens. Case studies include Catalonia and Spain, Puerto Rico and the United States, Scotland and the United Kingdom, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Quebec and the Métis People in Canada. Theoretically significant and empirically rich, Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies is a necessary read for any student of multinationalism.

From New Peoples to New Nations

From New Peoples to New Nations
Author: Gerhard J. Ens
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442627115

From New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and reinvention of Metis identity from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Their work updates, rethinks, and integrates the many disparate aspects of Metis historiography, providing the first comprehensive narrative of Metis identity in more than fifty years. Based on extensive archival materials, interviews, oral histories, ethnographic research, and first-hand working knowledge of Metis political organizations, From New Peoples to New Nations addresses the long and complex history of Metis identity from the Battle of Seven Oaks to today's legal and political debates.

Canadian Cultural Heritage Bundle

Canadian Cultural Heritage Bundle
Author: Sharon Stewart
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2013-12-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459727916

Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these three books we explore the cultural heritage that is at the roots of Canada’s present-day multicultural society. In the lives of abolitionist Underground Railway hero Harriet Tubman; Metis revolutionary Louis Riel; and frontiersman Simon Girty, who adopted and respected Native culture long before the vast majority of white people, we discover that the struggle for inclusion and human rights has existed since the dawn of Canada’s modern history. Includes Harriet Tubman Louis Riel Simon Girty

Edmonton In Our Own Words

Edmonton In Our Own Words
Author: Linda Goyette
Publisher: University of Alberta
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2005-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780888644497

Linda Goyette and Carolina Roemmich have tapped Edmonton's collective memoir, through the written record, the spoken stories and the vast silences. All of the people who ever lived at this bend in the North Saskatchewan took part in creating the city we know as Edmonton. Through traditional Indigenous stories about the earliest travellers along the bend in the river, diaries, archival records and letters of 19th century inhabitants and the recollections of living residents who talk about the emerging city, Edmonton's history is told using the words and stories of the people who have called this city home. Citizens with diverse viewpoints speak for themselves, describing important events in Edmonton's social, political and economic development. The official publication of the City of Edmonton's Centennial, Edmonton In Our Own Words includes many never seen before photographs from private collections, historic maps and a timeline of Edmonton's history. Imagine a conversation between Edmonton's past inhabitants and its living citizens. What would we tell the rest of the world about our place on the map? What stories would we tell with tears in our eyes, or laughter, or pride? In Edmonton In Our Own Words, experience the personal stories of eyewitnesses and descendants explaining, arguing, crying, scolding, laughing and interrupting one another in a city's evolving conversation with itself as Edmonton celebrates its past and future.