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Title:Long Journey of a Forgotten People : Métis Identities & Family Histories
Series:(Aboriginal Studies Series)
Author:Ute Lischke & David T McNab (eds)
ISBN:088920523X : 9780889205239
Illustrations:photos & maps
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:386
Weight: .59 Kg.
Published:Wilfrid Laurier University Press - February 2007
List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Indigenous peoples: Canada: Historiography


A significant addition to Métis historiography, it includes Métis voices and personal narratives that address the thorny and complicated issue of Métis identity from historical and contemporary perspectives.

Introduction: We Are Still Here; Out of the Bush: A Journey to a Dream; A Long Journey: Reflections on Spirit Memory and Métis Identities; Reflections on Métis Connections in the Life and Writings of Louise Erdrich; The Winds of Change: Métis Rights after Powley, Taku and Haida; "I Shall Settle, Marry, and Trade Here": British Military Personnel and Their Mixed-Blood Descendants; Early Forefathers to the Athabasca Métis: Long-Term North West Company Employees; Manipulating Identity: The Sault Borderlands Métis and Colmiac Intervention; New Light on the Plains Métis: The Buffalo Hunters of Pembinah, 1870- 71; The Drummond Island Voyageurs and the Search for Great Lakes Métis Identity; Searching for the Silver Fox: A fur-Trade Family History; The Kokum Puzzle: Finding and Fitting the Pieces; "Where the White Dove Flew Up": The Saguingue Métis Community and the Fur Trade at Southampton on Lake Huron; My Story: Reflections on Growing Up in Lac la Biche.