Metis Pioneers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metis Pioneers write by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon. This book was released on 2018-03-15. Metis Pioneers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women’s acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.
Metis Pioneers
Metis Pioneers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metis Pioneers write by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon. This book was released on 2018-02-08. Metis Pioneers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson's Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women's acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.
The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith
The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith write by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon. This book was released on 2012. The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Métis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith examines how Marie Rose negotiates her identities--as mother, boarding house owner, homesteader, medicine woman, midwife, and writer--during the changing environment of the western plains during the late nineteenth century.
We Know Who We Are
We Know Who We Are - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Know Who We Are write by Martha Harroun Foster. This book was released on 2016-01-18. We Know Who We Are available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the Métis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada and the northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. Yet their Métis identity is often ignored or misunderstood in the United States. Unlike their counterparts in Canada, the U.S. Métis have never received federal recognition. In fact, their very identity has been questioned. In this rich examination of a Métis community—the first book-length work to focus on the Montana Métis—Martha Harroun Foster combines social, political, and economic analysis to show how its people have adapted to changing conditions while retaining a strong sense of their own unique culture and traditions. Despite overwhelming obstacles, the Métis have used the bonds of kinship and common history to strengthen and build their community. As Foster carefully traces the lineage of Métis families from the Spring Creek area, she shows how the people retained their sense of communal identity. She traces the common threads linking diverse Métis communities throughout Montana and lends insight into the nature of Métis identity in general. And in raising basic questions about the nature of ethnicity, this pathbreaking work speaks to the difficulties of ethnic identification encountered by all peoples of mixed descent.
One of the Family
One of the Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One of the Family write by Brenda Macdougall. This book was released on 2011-01-01. One of the Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years there has been growing interest in identifying the social and cultural attributes that define the Metis as a distinct people. In this groundbreaking study, Brenda Macdougall employs the concept of wahkootowin � the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values interconnectedness � to trace the emergence of a Metis community in northern Saskatchewan. Wahkootowin describes how relationships worked and helps to explain how the Metis negotiated with local economic and religious institutions while nurturing a society that emphasized family obligation and responsibility. This innovative exploration of the birth of Metis identity offers a model for future research and discussion.
