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

Title
From new peoples to new nations : aspects of Métis history and identity from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk.
Author
Ens, Gerhard J., 1954-
Publication
  • Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
Sawchuk, Joe, 1942-
Description
xii, 687 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 16-2232
ISBN
  • 9781442649781
  • 144264978X
  • 9781442627116
  • 1442627115
OCLC
904979571
Author
Ens, Gerhard J., 1954- author.
Title
From new peoples to new nations : aspects of Métis history and identity from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk.
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Sawchuk, Joe, 1942- author.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-2232
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