The soothing role of the Church was reinforced by the failure of the Patriotes rebellion in the Montreal region in 1837, and very soon French Catholicism began to spread to the remotest areas of the west. [...] The fifth article of this collection, "Wintering, the Outsider Adult Male and the Ethnogenesis of the Western Plains Metis," by John Foster (1994), traces the origins of the latter group to the practices of wintering in the late 18th century and the transformation of the engage into a freeman. [...] The emergence of a hostile United States of America to the south of the Great Lakes in the closing decades of the 18th century emphasized, in the mind of British colonial authorities, the necessity of adopting the French practice of establishing politico-military alliances with Indian bands.17 Such alliances depended upon the exchange of furs for European goods. [...] It was natural that North West Company officers would encourage these people, the "Metis," to see them- selves as the "New Nation" whose interests were threatened by the arrival of the Selkirk settlers and the policies of the Hudson's Bay Company.40 The events of the decade, focussing on the Battle of Seven Oaks, June 16,1815, did not bring success to the North West Company but they caused the Met [...] In the late 1790s, finding the Indians of the Upper Saskatchewan and neighbouring river valleys harvesting furs according to their needs and not the needs of the traders, the North West Company brought into the interior as many as 200 Iroquois, Ottawa, Nipissing and Saulteaux trapper- 28 | THE METIS: THE PEOPLE AND THE TERM voyageurs.44 These eastern Indians, amongst whom the Iroquois predomi- nat
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Table of Contents
- Contents 7
- 1. Genesis 9
- 2. The Métis: The People and the Term 29
- 3. Indigenous Knowledge, Literacy and Research on Métissage and Métis Origins on the Saskatchewan River: The Case of the Jerome Family 39
- 4. The Northern Great Plains: Pantry of the Northwestern Fur Trade, 1774–1885 63
- 5. The Twatt Family, 1780–1840: Amerindian, Ethnic Category, or Ethnic Group Identity? 81
- 6. Wintering, the Outsider Adult Male and the Ethnogenesis of the Western Plains Métis 99
- 7. The Market for Métis Lands in Manitoba: An Exploratory Study 113
- 8. Dispossession vs. Accommodation in Plaintiff vs. Defendant Accounts of Métis Dispersal from Manitoba, 1870–1881 133
- 9. Métis Land Claims at St. Laurent: Old Arguments and New Evidence 153
- 10. Thomas Scott and the Daughter of Time 163
- 11. The Charismatic Pattern: Canada's Riel Rebellion of 1885 as a Millenarian Protest Movement 193
- 12. Louis Riel and Sitting Bull's Sioux: Three Lost Letters 211
- 13. The Battle of Batoche 221
- 14. Another Father of Confederation? 269
- Notes & References 277
- Index 321
- A 321
- B 321
- C 322
- D 323
- E 323
- F 324
- G 324
- H 325
- I 326
- J 326
- K 326
- L 326
- M 327
- N 329
- O 329
- P 330
- Q 330
- R 330
- S 331
- T 333
- U 333
- V 333
- W 334
- Y 334
- Z 334
