Description
Book SynopsisA provocative meditation on how “Métis” has come to signify an ever-expanding racial category rather than an indigenous people with a shared sense of history and culture.
Trade Review“Métis” is, without a doubt, essential reading for everyone who studies the Métis, Indigeneity, and/or race and racialization as it provides a powerful critique of Métis racialization and an example of the impact of racialization on Indigenous nations.
-- Monique Giroux * Acadiensis *
Andersen's book is thorough and deep, insightful and provocative. Some will find it unsettling. But, for anyone interested in questions of Métis identity, or more generally Indigenous rights in Canada, it is an essential read.
-- Dwight Newman * Review of Constitutional Studies *
Andersen does a superb job of engaging with the scholarship of the field, allowing the reader to gain a clear understanding of its historical trajectory and where Andersen’s work stands in comparison ...
Métis is an important contribution and I expect that it will spur lively discussions, productive critiques, and shift the scholarship in the field. -- Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe) * NAIS (Native American and Indigenous Studies) Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2015 *
Table of ContentsForeword / Paul Chartrand
Introduction
1 Mixed: The History and Evolution of an Administrative Concept
2 Métis-as-Mixed: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Census
3 The Métis Nation: A People, a Shared History
4 Métis Nation and Peoplehood: A Critical Reading of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Census
5 A Case of (Mis)recognition: The NunatuKavut Community Council
Conclusion
Notes; Works Cited; Index
