The New Peoples

Being and Becoming Métis

Edited by Jacqueline Peterson & Jennifer S.H. Brown
Categories: Indigenous Studies, Canadian History
Series: Manitoba Studies in Native History
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9780887553783, 306 pages, November 1985
Paperback : 9780887556173, 306 pages, November 1985
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Table of contents

PART 1 MÈtis Origins: Discovery and Interpretations - Olive Dickason, Jacqueline Peterson, John Foster

PART 2 Communities in Diversity - Irene Spry, Verne Dussenberry, John Long, Trudy Nicks and Kenneth Morgan

PART 3 Diasporas and Questions of Identity - R. David Edmunds, Jennifer Brown, Sylvia Van Kirk

PART 4 Cultural Life - Ted Brasser, John Crawford, Robert Thomas

Description

Leading Canadian and American scholars explore the dimension and meaning of the intermingling of European and Native American peoples.

Reviews

"An indispensable introduction to the complexity of MÈtis communities."

- American Historical Review

"A significant contribution to our understanding of this recent field of historic endeavour."

- Canadian Historical Review