From new peoples to new nations : aspects of Metis history and identity from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries /
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.
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- From New Peoples to New Nations. Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
- Introduction
- Part I: Hybridity and Patterns of Ethnogenesis
- 1. Race and Nation: Changing Ethnological and Historical Constructions of Hybridity
- 2. Economic Ethnogenesis: The Fur Trade and Métissage in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Part II: The Genesis and Development of the Idea of the Métis Nation to the 1930s
- Introduction
- 3. Fur Trade Wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the Idea of the Métis Nation, 1811-1849
- 4. Louis Riel and the Religion of Métis Nationalism, 1869-1885
- 5. L'Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph, A.-H. de Trémaudan, and the Re-imagining of the Métis Nation, 1910 to the 1930s
- Part III: Government Policy and the Invention of Métis Status in the Nineteenth Century
- 6. The Manitoba Act and the Creation of a Métis Status
- 7. Extinguishing Rights and Inventing Categories: Métis Scrip as Policy and Self-Ascription
- 8. Indian Treaty versus Métis Scrip: The Permeability of Status Categories and Ethnicities
- 9. The United States / Canada Border and the Bifurcation of the Plains Métis, 1870-1900
- Part IV: Economic Marginalization and the Métis Political Response, 1896 to the 1960s
- Introduction
- 10. St Paul des Métis Colony, 1896-1909: Identity as Pathology
- 11. Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Métis Population Betterment Act of 1938
- 12. The Liberals, the CCF, and the Métis of Saskatchewan, 1935-1964
- 13. Social Science and the Métis, 1950-1970
- Part V: Politics, the Courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Métis Identities since the 1960s
- 14. A Renewed Political Awareness, 1965-2000
- 15. Reformulated Identities, 1965-2013
- 16. The Métis of Ontario
- 17. Organizational Politics, Land Claims, and the Métis of the Northwest Territories
- 18. Ethnic Symbolism: Reinterpreting and Recreating the Past
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
