
The Fort McKay Metis Nation
A Community History
Peter Fortna(Author)
University of Calgary Press
Published on 31. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-77385-592-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Metis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, and responses to mass oil sands development. The Fort McKay Metis Nation carefully considers the community's unique historical context, drawing on a broad range of sources including archival research, oral histories, grey literature, and community literature. It examines the complex interrelations between the Fort McKay Metis Nation and their neighbors, the Fort McKay First Nation, and their ways they have connected with each other.
Completed in partnership with the community, The Fort McKay Metis Nation provides perspectives which have never before been shared. It is an important, unique history of a community in the heart of the oil sands.
Completed in partnership with the community, The Fort McKay Metis Nation provides perspectives which have never before been shared. It is an important, unique history of a community in the heart of the oil sands.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77385-592-9 (9781773855929)
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Peter Fortna is a historian based out of Cochrane, Alberta. He has worked with a number of Indigenous communities in western Canada in a variety of capacities authoring reports for regulatory hearings and legal proceedings. He assisted in the authorship of Remembering Our Relations: De?nesu?line? Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park