The New peoples : being and becoming métis in North America

Peterson, Jacqueline, 1943- (Added Author). Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0887551343
ISBN: 9780887551345
ISBN: 0887556175 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780887556173 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0803236735
ISBN: 9780803236738
Physical Description: print
xvi, 266 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Publisher: [Manitoba] : University of Manitoba Press, c1985.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Met́is origins : discovery and interpretation. From "one nation" in the Northeast to "New Nation" in the Northwest : a look at the emergence of the met́is / Olive Patricia Dickason -- Many roads to Red River : met́is genesis in the Great Lakes region, 1680-1815 / Jacqueline Peterson -- Some questions and perspectives on the problem of met́is roots / John E. Foster -- Communities in diversity. The met́is and mixed-bloods of Rupert's Land before 1870 / Irene M. Spry -- Waiting for a day that never comes : the dispossessed met́is of Montana / Verne Dusenberry -- Treaty no. 9 and fur trade company families : Northeastern Ontario's halfbreeds, Indians, petitioners and met́is / John S. Long -- Grande Cache : the historic development of an indigenous Alberta met́is population / Trudy Nicks and Kenneth Morgan -- Diasporas and questions of identity. "Unacquainted with the laws of the civilized world" : American attitudes toward the met́is communities in the Old Northwest / R. David Edmunds.