The western Métis : profile of a people

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ISBN: 9780889771994
ISBN: 0889771995
Physical Description: print
326 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Regina : University of Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center, 2007.

General Note:	Essays orginally published in Prairie forum between 1978-2004. Essays originally published in Prairie forum between 1978-2004.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Genesis / Patrick C. Douaud -- 2. The Métis: The people and the term / John E. Foster -- 3. Indigenous knowledge, literacy and research on Métissage and Métis origins on the Saskatchewan River: The case of the Jerome fmaily / Ruth Swan and Edward A. Jerome -- 4. The northern Great Plains: Pantry of the northwestern fur trade, 1774-1885 / Arthur J. Ray -- 5. The Twatt family, 1780-1840: Amerindian, ethnic category, or ethnic group identity? / Paul C. Thistle -- 6. Wintering, the outsider adult male and the ethnogenesis of the western plains Métis / John E. Foster -- 7. The market for Métis lands in Manitoba: An exploratory study / Thomas Flanagan -- 8. Dispossession vs. accommodation in plaintiff vs. defendant accounts of Métis dispersal from Manitoba, 1870-1881 / D.N. Sprague -- 9. Métis land claims at St. Laurent: Old arguments and new evidence / Thomas Flanagan -- 10. Thomas Scott and the daughter of time / J.M. Bumsted -- 11. The charismatic pattern: Canada's Riel Rebellion of 1885 as a millenarian protest movement / Manfried Mossmann -- 12. Louis Riel and Sitting Bull's Sioux: Three lost letters / David G. McCrady -- 13. The Battle of Batoche / Walter Hildebrandt -- 14. Another father of confederation? / Allen Ronaghan.