General Note:
Essays originally published in Prairie forum between 1978-2004.
Includes map on cover, p. [2].
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Genesis / Patrick C. Douaud -- The Métis: The people and the term / John E. Foster -- Indigenous knowledge, literacy and research on Métissage and Métis origins on the Saskatchewan River: The case of the Jerome fmaily / Ruth Swan and Edward A. Jerome -- The northern Great Plains: Pantry of the northwestern fur trade, 1774-1885 / Arthur J. Ray -- The Twatt family, 1780-1840: Amerindian, ethnic category, or ethnic group identity? / Paul C. Thistle -- Wintering, the outsider adult male and the ethnogenesis of the western plains Métis / John E. Foster -- The market for Métis lands in Manitoba: An exploratory study / Thomas Flanagan -- Dispossession vs. accommodation in plaintiff vs. defendant accounts of Métis dispersal from Manitoba, 1870-1881 / D.N. Sprague -- Métis land claims at St. Laurent: Old arguments and new evidence / Thomas Flanagan -- Thomas Scott and the daughter of time / J.M. Bumsted -- The charismatic pattern: Canada's Riel Rebellion of 1885 as a millenarian protest movement / Manfried Mossmann -- Louis Riel and Sitting Bull's Sioux: Three lost letters / David G. McCrady -- The Battle of Batoche / Walter Hildebrandt -- Another father of confederation? / Allen Ronaghan.
Language Note:
Includes some text in French.
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