Contours of a people : Metis family, mobility, and history / edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

St-Onge, Nicole.

Podruchny, Carolyn.

Macdougall, Brenda, 1969-

Series:

New directions in Native American studies ; v. 6.

New directions in Native American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Métis--History.

Métis.

History.

Métis--Migrations.

Métis--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2012]

Summary:

Arising in conjunction with the North American fur trade of the 17th through 19th centuries, dual-heritage European-Native American communities came into being and formed a distinct ethno-national group, the Metis. This volume contains 14 chapters examining Metis culture and nationhood. Specific topics include mobility and kinship in Metis ethnogenesis, the Battle of Seven Oaks and the articulation of a Metis national tradition, territoriality and oral geographies of the Metis of the 19th-century Northwest, the genesis of Metis languages, gender relations among the Metis of Wisconsin, Metis networks in British Columbia, juridical visions of historical Metis collectivity in and after the Canadian Supreme Court case R v. Powley, and the myth of Metis cultural ambivalence. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: cultural mobility and the countors of difference / Brenda Macdougall, Catolyn Podruchny, and Nicole St-Onge

Red River redux: métis ethnogenesis and the Great Lakes region / Jacqueline Peterson

Scuttling along a spider's web: mobility and kinship in metis ethnogenesis / Nicole St-Onge and Carolyn Podruchny

The Battle of Seven Oaks and the articulation of a metis national tradition, 1811-1849 / Gerhard J. Ens

Against spatialized ethnicity / Philip D. Wolfart

"Le fond de l'ouest": teritoriality, oral geographies, and the métis in the nineteenth-century northwest / Étienne Rivard

Thenogenesis, language, and identity: the genesis of Michif and other mixed languages / Peter Bakker

In the shadows of honorable company: Nicolas Catelain and the métis of Fort Frances / Victor P. Lytwyn

Women, networks, and colonization in nineteenth-century Wisconsin / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy

Une femme en vaut deux

"Strong like two people": Marie Fisher Gaudet of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories / Diane P. Payment

The Montana Metis and the shifting boundaries of belonging / Michel Hogue

Métis networks in British Columbia: examples from the central interior / Mike Evans, Jean Barman, and Gabrielle Legault, with Erin Dolmage and Geoff Appleby

The creoles of Russian America: laborers in the borderlands / Daniel J. Blumlo

Settling for community? Juridical visions of historical metis collectivity in and after R. v. Powley / Chris Anderson

The myth of metis cultural ambivalence / Brenda Macdougall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780806142791

0806142790

OCLC:

790269782