ISBN:
978-1-4426-2711-6
,
978-1-4426-4978-1
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 687 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten, Tabellen
Keywords:
Kanada Saskatchewan
;
Dené
;
Metis
;
Geschichte
;
Unabhängigkeitskampf
;
Identität
;
Ethnogenese
;
Selbstbestimmung
;
Selbstbild
;
Recht
;
Vertrag
;
Beziehungen, interethnische
;
Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Riel, Louis [Leben und Werk]
;
Hudson's Bay Company
Abstract:
From New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and reinvention of Metis identity from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Their work updates, rethinks, and integrates the many disparate aspects of Metis historiography, providing the first comprehensive narrative of Metis identity in more than fifty years. Based on extensive archival materials, interviews, oral histories, ethnographic research, and first-hand working knowledge of Metis political organizations, From New Peoples to New Nations addresses the long and complex history of Metis identity from the Battle of Seven Oaks to today's legal and political debates.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I: Hybridity and Patterns of Ethnogenesis Chapter One: Race and Nation: Changing Ethnological and Historical Constructions of Hybridity Chapter Two: Economic Ethnogenesis: The Fur Trade and Metissage in the 18th and 19th Centuries Part II: The Genesis and Development of the Idea of the Metis Nation to 1930 Chapter Three: Fur Trade Wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the Idea of the Metis Nation, 1811-1849 Chapter Four: Louis Riel and the Religion of Metis Nationalism, 1869-1885 Chapter Five: L'Union Nationale Metisse Saint-Joseph, A.H. Tremaudan, and the Reimagining of the Metis Nation, 1910-1930s Part III: Government Policy and Metis Status in the 19th Century Chapter Six: The Manitoba Act and the Creation of Metis Status Chapter Seven: Extinguishing Rights and Inventing Categories: Metis Scrip as Policy and Self Ascription Chapter Eight: Indian Treaty versus Metis Scrip: The Permeability of Status Categories and Ethnicities Chapter Nine: The United States/Canada Border and the Bifurcation of the Plains Metis 1870-1900 Part IV: Economic Marginalization and the Metis Political Response 1896-1960s Chapter Ten: St. Paul des Metis Colony 1896-1909: Identity as Pathology Chapter Eleven: Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Metis Betterment Act of 1938 Chapter Twelve: The Liberals, the CCF, and the Metis of Saskatchewan, 1935-1964 Chapter Thirteen: Social Science and the Metis, 1950-1970 Part V: Politics, the Courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Metis Identities Chapter Fourteen: A Renewed Political Awareness, 1965-2000 Chapter Fifteen: Reformulated Identities, 1965-2013 Chapter Sixteen: The Metis of Ontario Chapter Seventeen: The Metis of the Northwest Territories Chapter Eighteen: Ethnic Symbolism: Re-interpreting and Recreating the Past Conclusion
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 636-664
