From New Peoples to New Nations : : Aspects of Metis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries / / Gerhard J. Ens, Joe Sawchuk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Ens, Gerhard J.,; Sawchuk, Joe ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (704 p.) :; 1 figure, 19 maps

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- From New Peoples to New Nations. Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- Introduction -- Part I: Hybridity and Patterns of Ethnogenesis -- 1. Race and Nation: Changing Ethnological and Historical Constructions of Hybridity -- 2. Economic Ethnogenesis: The Fur Trade and Métissage in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Part II: The Genesis and Development of the Idea of the Métis Nation to the 1930s -- Introduction -- 3. Fur Trade Wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the Idea of the Métis Nation, 1811–1849 -- 4. Louis Riel and the Religion of Métis Nationalism, 1869–1885 -- 5. L’Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph, A.-H. de Trémaudan, and the Re-imagining of the Métis Nation, 1910 to the 1930s -- Part III: Government Policy and the Invention of Métis Status in the Nineteenth Century -- 6. The Manitoba Act and the Creation of a Métis Status -- 7. Extinguishing Rights and Inventing Categories: Métis Scrip as Policy and Self-Ascription -- 8. Indian Treaty versus Métis Scrip: The Permeability of Status Categories and Ethnicities -- 9. The United States / Canada Border and the Bifurcation of the Plains Métis, 1870–1900 -- Part IV: Economic Marginalization and the Métis Political Response, 1896 to the 1960s -- Introduction -- 10. St Paul des Métis Colony, 1896–1909: Identity as Pathology -- 11. Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Métis Population Betterment Act of 1938 -- 12. The Liberals, the CCF, and the Métis of Saskatchewan, 1935–1964 -- 13. Social Science and the Métis, 1950–1970 -- Part V: Politics, the Courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Métis Identities since the 1960s -- 14. A Renewed Political Awareness, 1965–2000 -- 15. Reformulated Identities, 1965–2013 -- 16. The Métis of Ontario -- 17. Organizational Politics, Land Claims, and the Métis of the Northwest Territories -- 18. Ethnic Symbolism: Reinterpreting and Recreating the Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index