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Book SynopsisFrom New Peoples to New Nations is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years.
Trade Review'Ens and Sawchuck have written the most comprehensive and balanced view of M tis history to date, which will provide much-needed context for all who seek to better understand who the M tis are and the centuries of struggle they have faced... Highly recommended.' -- B.F.R. Edwards Choice Magazine vol 54:02:2016 'From New Nations to New Peoples offers an important update to M tis history and historiography... Ens and Sawchuck's novel approach to the topic allows them to convincingly posit that M tis ethno-genesis is perpetual and continues to the present day via "dialogical processes". -- milie Pigeon Labour/Le Travail vol 78:2016 'As a result of its diligent research and unique analytical perspective, From New Peoples to New Nations will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in historical and contemporary M tis identities.' -- Gabrielle Legault BC Studies winter 2016/17
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Hybridity and Patterns of Ethnogenesis Chapter One: Race and Nation: Changing Ethnological and Historical Constructions of Hybridity Chapter Two: Economic Ethnogenesis: The Fur Trade and Metissage in the 18th and 19th Centuries Part II: The Genesis and Development of the Idea of the Metis Nation to 1930 Chapter Three: Fur Trade Wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the Idea of the Metis Nation, 1811-1849 Chapter Four: Louis Riel and the Religion of Metis Nationalism, 1869-1885 Chapter Five: L'Union Nationale Metisse Saint-Joseph, A.H. Tremaudan, and the Reimagining of the Metis Nation, 1910-1930s Part III: Government Policy and Metis Status in the 19th Century Chapter Six: The Manitoba Act and the Creation of Metis Status Chapter Seven: Extinguishing Rights and Inventing Categories: Metis Scrip as Policy and Self Ascription Chapter Eight: Indian Treaty versus Metis Scrip: The Permeability of Status Categories and Ethnicities Chapter Nine: The United States/Canada Border and the Bifurcation of the Plains Metis 1870-1900 Part IV: Economic Marginalization and the Metis Political Response 1896-1960s Chapter Ten: St. Paul des Metis Colony 1896-1909: Identity as Pathology Chapter Eleven: Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Metis Betterment Act of 1938 Chapter Twelve: The Liberals, the CCF, and the Metis of Saskatchewan, 1935-1964 Chapter Thirteen: Social Science and the Metis, 1950-1970 Part V: Politics, the Courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Metis Identities Chapter Fourteen: A Renewed Political Awareness, 1965-2000 Chapter Fifteen: Reformulated Identities, 1965-2013 Chapter Sixteen: The Metis of Ontario Chapter Seventeen: The Metis of the Northwest Territories Chapter Eighteen: Ethnic Symbolism: Re-interpreting and Recreating the Past Conclusion
