
Eastern Metis
Chronicling and Reclaiming a Denied Past
Lexington Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2021
Book
Hardback
372 pages
978-1-7936-0543-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Eastern Metis, Michel Bouchard, Sebastien Malette, and Siomonn Pulla demonstrate the historical and social evidence for the origins and continued existence of Metis communities across Ontario, Quebec, and the Canadian Maritimes as well as the West. Contributors to this edited collection explore archival and historical records that challenge narratives which exclude the possibility of Metis communities and identities in central and eastern Canada. Taking a continental rhizomatic approach, this book provides a rich and nuanced view of what it means to be Metis.
Reviews / Votes
This is a challenging book that weighs in on the controversial and divisive debate of who has the right to claim capital "M" Metis status in Canada. The collection assembles essays by scholars of anthropology, sociology, law, history, linguistics, geography, and interdisciplinary studies, purporting to present historical and social evidence of the origins and continued existence of cohesive Metis communities in Ontario, Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and (despite the title) the Pacific Northwest region of Canada. Challenging the "nationalist trope" that only the Red River Metis of the northern Plains can claim Metis identity, this collection directly challenges the perspective of scholars like Jacqueline Peterson, Darryl Leroux, Adam Gaudry, and Jesse Thistle, not to mention the established Canadian legal view asserting that other claims to Metis status are little more than "race shifting"-a tactical use of long-ago racial mixing to reimagine a "Metis" identity and thus assert treaty rights. This book by no means settles the debate, but is nonetheless a thought-provoking contribution to the complicated topic of mixed Indigenous-settler identity, which will undoubtedly continue to spark controversy and inspire further study. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. * Choice Reviews * Eastern Metis: Chronicling and Reclaiming a Denied Past is long overdue and opens up important new understandings of our shared pasts. -- Jean Barman, University of British Columbia; author of French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific NorthwestMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 b/w illustrations;17 b/w photos; 4 tables;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
692 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7936-0543-6 (9781793605436)
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Chronicling and Reclaiming a Denied Past
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Persons
Michel Bouchard is professor of anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia.
Sebastien Malette is associate professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Siomonn Pulla is associate professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University.
Sebastien Malette is associate professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Siomonn Pulla is associate professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University.
Content
Chapter 1: Symbolic Violence against the "Other Metis": The Making of a New Forgotten People in Canada
Chapter 2: Political Ontologies in Turmoil: Metis "Neo-Nationalism" and the "Other Metis"
Chapter 3: The Languages of the Metis in Canada
Chapter 4: Situating Nova Scotia Metis Identities in a Colonial Past
Chapter 5: The Acadian Metis on the Geographic and Social Margins
Chapter 6: Metissage and Metis Identity in the Gaspe Peninsula: From Its
Origins to the 1886 Paspebiac Riots
Chapter 7: Undercoat Communities: The Geohistorical Scaling of Metis Identity in the East
Chapter 8: "The Lowest Race of Any in Canada": Mitifs from the Fur Trade and the Voyageurs Parishes of St. Lawrence Valley
Chapter 9: Understanding the Impacts of a Transitional and Mixed Regional Economy on the Emergence of the Historic Metis of Mattawa
Chapter 10 : The Voyageur Metis of Penetanguishene: An Examination of the Ethnohistory of the Metis in Ontario
Chapter 11: The Story of French Canadian Metis Voyageur Joseph Dussa
Chapter 2: Political Ontologies in Turmoil: Metis "Neo-Nationalism" and the "Other Metis"
Chapter 3: The Languages of the Metis in Canada
Chapter 4: Situating Nova Scotia Metis Identities in a Colonial Past
Chapter 5: The Acadian Metis on the Geographic and Social Margins
Chapter 6: Metissage and Metis Identity in the Gaspe Peninsula: From Its
Origins to the 1886 Paspebiac Riots
Chapter 7: Undercoat Communities: The Geohistorical Scaling of Metis Identity in the East
Chapter 8: "The Lowest Race of Any in Canada": Mitifs from the Fur Trade and the Voyageurs Parishes of St. Lawrence Valley
Chapter 9: Understanding the Impacts of a Transitional and Mixed Regional Economy on the Emergence of the Historic Metis of Mattawa
Chapter 10 : The Voyageur Metis of Penetanguishene: An Examination of the Ethnohistory of the Metis in Ontario
Chapter 11: The Story of French Canadian Metis Voyageur Joseph Dussa