Description
Book SynopsisScholars from multiple disciplines draw on unique and innovative sources – archaeological and material evidence, personal experience and oral history – to recover Aboriginal and cross-cultural histories and explore new approaches to the past.
Table of ContentsPreface
1 Introduction: Complex Subjectivities, Multiple Ways of Knowing / Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny
Part 1: Using Material Culture
2 Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural Mixing in the Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny, Frederic W. Gleach, and Roger Roulette
3 Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western Anishinaabe Leadership Roles Viewed through Two Nineteenth-Century Burials / Cory Willmott and Kevin Brownlee
Part 2: Using Documents
4 Anishinaabe Toodaims: Contexts for Politics, Kinship, and Identity in the Eastern Great Lakes / Heidi Bohaker
5 The Contours of Everyday Life: Food and Identity in the Plateau Fur Trade / Elizabeth Vibert
6 “Make it last forever as it is”: John McDonald of Garth’s Vision of a Native Kingdom in the Northwest / Germaine Warkentin
Part 3: Ways of Knowing
7 Being and Becoming Métis: A Personal Reflection / Heather Devine
8 Historical Research and the Place of Oral History: Conversations from Berens River / Susan Elaine Gray
Part 4: Ways of Representing
9 Border Identities: Métis, Halfbreed, and Mixed-Blood / Theresa Schenck
10 Edward Ahenakew’s Tutelage by Paul Wallace: Reluctant Scholarship, Inadvertent Preservation / David R. Miller
11 Aboriginal History and Historic Sites: The Shifting Ground / Laura Peers and Robert Coutts
Afterword: Aaniskotaapaan – Generations and Successions / Jennifer S.H. Brown
Contributors
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