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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Métis.
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Métis. |
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Métis -- History.
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History. |
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Métis -- Ethnic identity.
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Métis -- Ethnic identity. |
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Métis -- Social life and customs.
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Métis -- Social life and customs. |
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Métis -- Government relations.
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Métis -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Métis -- Social conditions.
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Métis -- Government relations. |
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Métis -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General. |
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Métis -- Social conditions. |
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HISTORY -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Sawchuk, Joe, 1942- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ens, Gerhard J. (Gerhard John), 1954- From new peoples to new nations 9781442649781 (OCoLC)904979571 |
| ISBN |
9781442621497 (electronic book) |
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1442621494 (electronic book) |
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9781442649781 |
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144264978X |
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9781442627116 |
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1442627115 |
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