Homeland to Hinterland : : The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century /

Homeland to Hinterland : : The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century / / Gerhard Ens.

Most writing on Metis history has concentrated on the Resistance of 1869-70 and the Rebellion of 1885, without adequately explaining the social and economic origins of the Metis that shaped those conflicts. Historians have often emphasized the aboriginal aspect of the Metis heritage, stereotyping th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Ens, Gerhard,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©1996
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps, Tables, and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • ONE. The Metis and the Formation of the Red River Colony
  • TWO. The Red River Peasantry: Metis Economy and Society in the 1830s
  • THREE. The Red River Peasantry: The Demographic Regime
  • FOUR. The Metis and the Transition to Market Capitalism, 1840-1870
  • FIVE. Metis Demography and Pro to-Industrialism in Red River, 1840-1870
  • SIX. Family, Ethnicity, Class, and the Kiel Resistance of 1869-1870
  • SEVEN. Homeland to Hinterland: The Dispersal of the Red River Metis after 1870
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIX A. Family Reconstitution Methodolgy
  • APPENDIX B. Migration Data and Methodolgy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Map and Illustration Credits
  • Index

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