The New Peoples

Being and Becoming Métis

Overview

Leading Canadian and American scholars explore the dimension and meaning of the intermingling of European and Native American peoples.

Reviews

"An indispensable introduction to the complexity of Métis communities."

American Historical Review

"A significant contribution to our understanding of this recent field of historic endeavour."

Canadian Historical Review

About the Authors

Jacqueline Peterson is assistant professor of Native American Studies and History at Washington State University. Former assistant director of the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian, she won the 1984 Robert F. Heizer Award in ethnohistory.

Jennifer Brown is professor of history at the University of Winnipeg. An anthropologist and historian, she has written widely on fur-trade social history and ethnohistory.

Other contributors: Marcel Giraud, Olive Dickason, Jacqueline Peterson, John Foster, Irene Spry, Verne Dussenberry, John Long, Trudy Nicks, Kenneth Morgan, R. David Edmunds, Jennifer Brown, Sylvia Van Kirk, Ted Brasser, John Crawford, Robert Thomas

Table of Contents

PART 1 Métis Origins: Discovery and Interpretations - Olive Dickason, Jacqueline Peterson, John Foster

PART 2 Communities in Diversity - Irene Spry, Verne Dussenberry, John Long, Trudy Nicks and Kenneth Morgan

PART 3 Diasporas and Questions of Identity - R. David Edmunds, Jennifer Brown, Sylvia Van Kirk

PART 4 Cultural Life - Ted Brasser, John Crawford, Robert Thomas