The New Peoples

Being and Becoming Métis

Jacqueline Peterson (Editor), Jennifer S.H. Brown (Editor)

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 MÈtis communities."

American Historical Review

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

Canadian Historical Review

About the Authors

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.

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 MÈtis 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

Book Details

The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis

Jacqueline Peterson (Editor), Jennifer S.H. Brown (Editor)

Published November 1985, 306 pages

PDF: ISBN 9780887553783, $25.00

Paper: ISBN 9780887556173
6 × 9 × 0.7 in, $24.95

EPUB: ISBN 9780887550386, $25.00

Topics: History, Indigenous Studies, Métis Studies

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