The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis

by Jacqueline Peterson (Editor), Jennifer S.H. Brown (Editor)

Overview

Leading Canadian and American scholars explore the dimension and meaning of the intermingling of European and Native American peoples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887550386
Publisher:	University of Manitoba Press
Publication date:	11/01/1985
Series:	Manitoba Studies in Native History , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	306
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Jacqueline Peterson is assistant professor of Native American Studies and History at Washington State University. Former assistant director of the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian, she won the 1984 Robert F. Heizer Award in ethnohistory.

Jennifer Brown is professor of history at the University of Winnipeg. An anthropologist and historian, she has written widely on fur-trade social history and ethnohistory.

Table of Contents

PART 1 Métis Origins: Discovery and Interpretations - Olive Dickason, Jacqueline Peterson, John Foster PART 2 Communities in Diversity - Irene Spry, Verne Dussenberry, John Long, Trudy Nicks and Kenneth Morgan PART 3 Diasporas and Questions of Identity - R. David Edmunds, Jennifer Brown, Sylvia Van Kirk PART 4 Cultural Life - Ted Brasser, John Crawford, Robert Thomas