From new peoples to new nations : aspects of Métis history and identity from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ens, Gerhard J., 1954- (Author), Sawchuk, Joe, 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Hybridity and patterns of ethnogenesis
  • 1. Race and nation: changing ethnological and historical constructios of hybridity
  • 2. Economic ethnogenesis: the fur trade and Métissage in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • Part II. The genesis and developmet of the idea of the Métis nation to the 1930s
  • 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. Extinguishng rights and inventing categories: Métis scrip as policy and self-ascription
  • 8. Indian Treaty versus Métis scrip: the permeability of sttus categories and ethnicities
  • 9. The United States/Canada borer and teh bifurcation of the Plains Métis, 1870-1900
  • Part IV. Economic marginalization and the Métis political response, 1896 to the 1960s
  • 10. St Paul des Métis colony, 1896-1909: identity as pathology
  • 11. Political moilization 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. Reforuated 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.