The new peoples : being and becoming Métis in North America /

The new peoples : being and becoming Métis in North America / edited by Jacqueline Peterson, Jennifer S.H. Brown. - [Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, (c)1985. - 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits. - Manitoba studies in native history, 1 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

""COVER""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: MÃ(c)tis Origins: Discovery and Interpretation""; ""From ""One Nation"" in the Northeast to ""New Nation"" in the Northwest: A look at the emergence of the mÃ(c)tis""; ""Many roads to Red River: MÃ(c)tis genesis in the Great Lakes region, 1680â€?1815""; ""Some questions and perspectives on the problem of mÃ(c)tis roots""; ""Part II: Communities in Diversity""; ""The mÃ(c)tis and mixed-bloods of Rupert's Land before 1870""; ""Waiting for a day that never comes: The dispossessed mÃ(c)tis of Montana"" ""Treaty No. 9 and fur trade company families: Northeastern Ontario's halfbreeds, Indians, petitioners and mÃ(c)tis""""Grande Cache: The historic development of an indigenous Alberta mÃ(c)tis population""; ""Part III: Diasporas and Questions of Identity""; """"Unacquainted with the laws of the civilized world"": American attitudes toward the mÃ(c)tis communities in the Old Northwest""; ""Diverging identities: The Presbyterian mÃ(c)tis of St. Gabriel Street, Montreal""; """"What if Mama is an Indian?"": The cultural ambivalence of the Alexander Ross family""; ""Part IV: Cultural Life"" ""In search of mÃ(c)tis art""""What is Michif?: Language in the mÃ(c)tis tradition""; ""Afterword""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""

A series of essays which explore the intermingling of European and native American peoples bringing about ethnogenesis - how new peoples, new ethnicities and new nationalities come into being.




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Indians of North America--Mixed descent--Canada.
Indians of North America--Mixed descent--History.--Canada
Indians of North America--Mixed descent.
Métis.

minoriteter canada


Electronic Books.

E99 / .N497 1985