Indigenous Studies: Indigenous Peoples of Canada: Metis

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Key ideas explored in this collection include identity, rights, and issues of governance, politics, and economics.

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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.

"In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act... It is a shameful tale, but one that must be told." -- from the foreword by Thomas R. Berger

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A look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous lands.

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In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Metis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Metis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies.

Walter Hildebrandt's chronicle of the battle, first published at the centenary of the Northwest Resistance in 1985, eloquently revisited and analyzed the strategies of both sides.

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Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Couleeese were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression, and inflation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network. At the city's edge, Rooster Town grew without city services as rural Métis arrived to participate in the urban economy and build their own houses while keeping Métis culture and community as a central part of their lives. In other growing settler cities, the Indigenous experience was largely characterized by removal and confinement. But the continuing presence of Métis living and working in the city, and the establishment of Rooster Town itself, made the Winnipeg experience unique. Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unofficially in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

Contains the evidence presented by the Manitoba Métis Federation to the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry.

Recent years have seen one of Canada's founding peoples the Métis come to national prominence at last. Yet many questions remain. Where did the Métis come from? Why were the people who were once denounced as 'half--breeds' recognized now as Indigenous people? How much did they build of Manitoba? A new book from Canada's eminent Metis publishing house, Pemmican Publications, answers those questions and many more, for a provocative, peppery read that earns pride of place in every curriculum. Threads in the Sash: The Story of the Metis People, by Fred J. Shore, is Canadian history at its liveliest and most illuminating. With verve and wit, and drawing upon years of teaching Métis courses at the University of Manitoba and the University of Saskatchewan, Shore combs the threads of history to explore and explain many aspects that have mystified the general public, from the origins of a nation through the fur trade to the importance of the Red River settlement in Manitoba to Métis proliferation in Canada.

The most thorough Metis-specific bibliography to date. Includes research on history, orality, resistances, dispossession, culture, languages, lifeways, sociology, literature, and film.

Delineates traditional Michif culture including: folklore, storytelling, medicines, and healing traditions, spirituality, transportation systems, housing, clothing, and family structures.

Michif language textbook in 2 volumes.
Volume 1: Language Practice
Volume 2: Language Theory

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