Description
Book SynopsisDerided as being fake, race-shifting, cultural appropriators, Eastern Métis demonstrates the historical and social evidence for the origins and continued existence of Métis communities across Ontario and the Canadian Maritimes as well as the West. The authors in this volume explore the archival and historical record that challenges dominant nationalist tropes of all stripes, narratives which exclude the very possibility of legitimate Métis communities and identities in central and eastern Canada. Taking a continental rhizomatic approach, the book provides a rich and nuanced view of what it means to be Métis.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Michel Bouchard, Sebastien Malette and Siomonn Pulla
Chapter 1: Symbolic Violence against the “Other Métis”: The Making of a New Forgotten People in Canada
Denis Gagnon
Chapter 2: Political Ontologies in Turmoil: Métis “Neo-Nationalism” and the “Other Métis”
Sebastien Malette
Chapter 3: The Languages of the Métis in Canada
Robert Papen
Chapter 4: Situating Nova Scotia Métis Identities in a Colonial Past
Katie MacLeod
Chapter 5: The Acadian Métis on the Geographic and Social Margins
Seán O’Connell
Chapter 6: Métissage and Métis Identity in the Gaspé Peninsula: From Its Origins to the 1886 Paspébiac Riots
Emmanuel Michaux
Chapter 7: Undercoat Communities: The Geohistorical Scaling of Métis Identity in the EastÉtienne RivardChapter 8: “The Lowest Race of Any in Canada”: Mitifs from the Fur Trade and the Voyageurs Parishes of St. Lawrence ValleyGuillaume MarcotteChapter 9: Understanding the Impacts of a Transitional and Mixed Regional Economy on the Emergence of the Historic Métis of MattawaSiomonn PullaChapter 10 : The Voyageur Métis of Penetanguishene: An Examination of the Ethnohistory of the Métis in OntarioMichel Bouchard and Tiana MagerChapter 11: The Story of French Canadian Métis Voyageur Joseph Dussault in the Pacific NorthwestChristine Elsey
Chapter 12: The Case of Maxim Cormier and the Unrecognized Acadian Métis: Between Criminalization and Group Lateral Violence
Jo-Anne Muise Lawless and Sebastien Malette
Chapter 13: “This Hero of Whom the Metis Nation at Large Must Be Proud”: Private Patrick Riel of Maniwaki
Sebastien Malette and Guillaume Marcotte
Index
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