Distorted Descent

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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887555942
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Distorted Descent by : Darryl Leroux

Download or read book Distorted Descent written by Darryl Leroux and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French-descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to 375 years ago through genealogy and using that ancestor as the sole basis for an eventual shift into an “Indigenous” identity today. After setting out the most common genealogical practices that facilitate race shifting, Leroux examines two of the most prominent self-identified “Indigenous” organizations currently operating in Quebec. Both organizations have their origins in committed opposition to Indigenous land and territorial negotiations, and both encourage the use of suspect genealogical practices. Distorted Descent brings to light to how these claims to an “Indigenous” identity are then used politically to oppose actual, living Indigenous peoples, exposing along the way the shifting politics of whiteness, white settler colonialism, and white supremacy.

Native People, Native Lands

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0886290627
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis Native People, Native Lands by : Bruce Alden Cox

Download or read book Native People, Native Lands written by Bruce Alden Cox and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of timely essays by Canadian scholars explores the fundamental link between the development of aboriginal culture and economic patterns. The contributors draw on original research to discuss Megaprojects in the North, the changing role of native women, reserves and devices for assimilation, the rebirth of the Canadian Metis, aboriginal rights in Newfoundland, the role of slave-raiding, and epidemics and firearms in native history.

We Know Who We Are

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806182342
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis We Know Who We Are by : Martha Harroun Foster

Download or read book We Know Who We Are written by Martha Harroun Foster and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the Métis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada and the northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. Yet their Métis identity is often ignored or misunderstood in the United States. Unlike their counterparts in Canada, the U.S. Métis have never received federal recognition. In fact, their very identity has been questioned. In this rich examination of a Métis community—the first book-length work to focus on the Montana Métis—Martha Harroun Foster combines social, political, and economic analysis to show how its people have adapted to changing conditions while retaining a strong sense of their own unique culture and traditions. Despite overwhelming obstacles, the Métis have used the bonds of kinship and common history to strengthen and build their community. As Foster carefully traces the lineage of Métis families from the Spring Creek area, she shows how the people retained their sense of communal identity. She traces the common threads linking diverse Métis communities throughout Montana and lends insight into the nature of Métis identity in general. And in raising basic questions about the nature of ethnicity, this pathbreaking work speaks to the difficulties of ethnic identification encountered by all peoples of mixed descent.

I Lost My Talk

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Publisher : Nimbus Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781774710050
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis I Lost My Talk by : Rita Joe

Download or read book I Lost My Talk written by Rita Joe and published by Nimbus Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen Words I Am Not A Number When We Were Alone I'm Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas

A Gathering of Rivers

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282933
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (829 download)

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Book Synopsis A Gathering of Rivers by : Lucy Eldersveld Murphy

Download or read book A Gathering of Rivers written by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great Lakes region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For a century the Winnebagos (Ho-Chunks),øMesquakies (Fox), and Sauks successfully confronted waves of French and British immigration by diversifying their economies and commercializing lead mining. Focusing on personal stories and detailed community histories, Murphy charts the changed economic forces at work in the region, connecting them to shifts in gender roles and intercultural relationships. She argues that French, British, and Native peoples forged cooperative social and economic bonds expressed partly by mixed-race marriages and the emergence of multiethnic communities at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien. Significantly, Native peoples in the western Great Lakes region were able to adapt successfully to the new frontier market economy until their lead mining operations became the envy of outsiders in the 1820s.

French and Native North American Marriages...: 1600-1800

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis French and Native North American Marriages...: 1600-1800 by : Paul Joseph Bunnell

Download or read book French and Native North American Marriages...: 1600-1800 written by Paul Joseph Bunnell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Métis

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Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774827238
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Book Synopsis Métis by : Chris Andersen

Download or read book Métis written by Chris Andersen and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask any Canadian what "Métis" means, and they will likely say "mixed race." Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other Indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this race-based understanding. Andersen argues that Canada got it wrong. From its roots deep in the colonial past, the idea of Métis as mixed has slowly pervaded the Canadian consciousness until it settled in the realm of common sense. In the process, "Métis" has become a racial category rather than the identity of an Indigenous people with a shared sense of history and culture.

Fruits of Perseverance

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773555757
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Fruits of Perseverance by : Guillaume Teasdale

Download or read book Fruits of Perseverance written by Guillaume Teasdale and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded by French military entrepreneur Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac in 1701, colonial Detroit was occupied by thousands of French settlers who established deep roots on both sides of the river. The city's unmistakable French past, however, has been long neglected in the historiography of New France and French North America. Exploring the French colonial presence in Detroit, from its establishment to its dissolution in the early nineteenth century, Fruits of Perseverance explains how a society similar to the rural settlements of the Saint Lawrence valley developed in an isolated place and how it survived well beyond the fall of New France. As Guillaume Teasdale describes, between the 1730s and 1750s, French authorities played a significant role in promoting land occupation along the Detroit River by encouraging settlers to plant orchards and build farms and windmills. After New France's defeat in 1763, these settlers found themselves living under the British flag in an Aboriginal world shortly before the newly independent United States began its expansion west. Fruits of Perseverance offers a window into the development of a French community in the borderlands of New France, whose heritage is still celebrated today by tens of thousands of residents of southwest Ontario and southeast Michigan.

French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest

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Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774828072
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Book Synopsis French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest by : Jean Barman

Download or read book French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest written by Jean Barman and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Barman was the recipient of the 2014 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. In French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest, Jean Barman rewrites the history of the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of French Canadians attracted by the fur economy, the indigenous women whose presence in their lives encouraged them to stay, and their descendants. Joined in this distant setting by Quebec paternal origins, the French language, and Catholicism, French Canadians comprised Canadiens from Quebec, Iroquois from the Montreal area, and métis combining Canadien and indigenous descent. For half a century, French Canadians were the largest group of newcomers to this region extending from Oregon and Washington east into Montana and north through British Columbia. Here, they facilitated the early overland crossings, drove the fur economy, initiated non-wholly-indigenous agricultural settlement, eased relations with indigenous peoples, and ensured that, when the region was divided in 1846, the northern half would go to Britain, giving today’s Canada its Pacific shoreline.

A Language of Our Own

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357086
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis A Language of Our Own by : Peter Bakker

Download or read book A Language of Our Own written by Peter Bakker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.

Quiet Revolution West

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Publisher : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Quiet Revolution West by : John Weinstein

Download or read book Quiet Revolution West written by John Weinstein and published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Métis have been recognized in the Constitution as one of the three groups of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, they remain the landless subjects of the Canadian government, and for this reason Quiet Revolution West is a timely account of resistance.

The Métis in the Canadian West

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis The Métis in the Canadian West by : Marcel Giraud

Download or read book The Métis in the Canadian West written by Marcel Giraud and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Institut d'Ethnologie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 1945 under the title "Le Metis Canadien". A study of the social history of the Metis of western Canada which portrays the birth of the Metis as a distinct group, defines the roles they played in the history of the fur trade era in the North West, and examines the decline of the Metis in the late 1988's.

Bois-Brûlés

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Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774862351
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Book Synopsis Bois-Brûlés by : Michel Bouchard

Download or read book Bois-Brûlés written by Michel Bouchard and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of Métis as having exclusively Prairie roots. Quebec doesn’t recognize a historical Métis community, and the Métis National Council contests the existence of any Métis east of Ontario. Quebec residents who seek recognition as Métis under the Canadian Constitution therefore face an uphill legal and political battle. Who is right? Bois-Brûlés examines archival and ethnographic evidence to piece together a riveting history of Métis in the Outaouais region. Scottish and French-Canadian fur traders and Indigenous women established themselves with their Bois-Brûlé children in the unsurveyed lands of western Quebec in the early nineteenth century. As the fur trade declined, these communities remained. This controversial work, previously available only in French, challenges head-on two powerful nationalisms – Métis and Québécois – that see Quebec Métis as “race-shifting” individuals. The authors provide a nuanced analysis of the historical basis for a distinctly Métis identity that can be traced all the way to today.

Eastern Métis

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793605440
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Eastern Métis by : Michel Bouchard

Download or read book Eastern Métis written by Michel Bouchard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eastern Métis, Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, and Siomonn Pulla demonstrate the historical and social evidence for the origins and continued existence of Métis communities across Ontario, Quebec, and the Canadian Maritimes as well as the West. Contributors to this edited collection explore archival and historical records that challenge narratives which exclude the possibility of Métis communities and identities in central and eastern Canada. Taking a continental rhizomatic approach, this book provides a rich and nuanced view of what it means to be Métis.

The People who Own Themselves

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Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381153
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Book Synopsis The People who Own Themselves by : Heather Devine

Download or read book The People who Own Themselves written by Heather Devine and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a unique how-to appendix for Metis genealogical reconstruction, this book will be of interest to Metis wanting to research their own genealogy and to scholars engaged in the reconstruction of Metis ethnic identity. The search for a Metis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. This book reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais' family history across a substantial area of North America, from colonial Louisiana, the St. Louis, Missouri, region and the American Southwest to the Red River and central Alberta. In the course of tracing the Desjarlais family, social, economic and political factors influencing the development of various Aboriginal ethnic identities are discussed. With intriguing details about the Desjarlais family members, this book offers new, original insights into the 1885 Northwest Rebellion, focusing on kinship as a motivating factor in the outcome of events.

Bonds of Alliance

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838179
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Bonds of Alliance by : Brett Rushforth

Download or read book Bonds of Alliance written by Brett Rushforth and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the dynamics of this system from its origins to the end of French colonial rule. Balancing a vast geographic and chronological scope with careful attention to the lives of enslaved individuals, this book gives voice to those who lived through the ordeal of slavery and, along the way, shaped French and Native societies. Rather than telling a simple story of colonial domination and Native victimization, Rushforth argues that Indian slavery in New France emerged at the nexus of two very different forms of slavery: one indigenous to North America and the other rooted in the Atlantic world. The alliances that bound French and Natives together forced a century-long negotiation over the nature of slavery and its place in early American society. Neither fully Indian nor entirely French, slavery in New France drew upon and transformed indigenous and Atlantic cultures in complex and surprising ways. Based on thousands of French and Algonquian-language manuscripts archived in Canada, France, the United States and the Caribbean, Bonds of Alliance bridges the divide between continental and Atlantic approaches to early American history. By discovering unexpected connections between distant peoples and places, Rushforth sheds new light on a wide range of subjects, including intercultural diplomacy, colonial law, gender and sexuality, and the history of race.

The New Peoples

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Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873514088
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Peoples by : Jacqueline Peterson

Download or read book The New Peoples written by Jacqueline Peterson and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the Metis Native americans by various authors.