{"product_id":"from-new-peoples-to-new-nations-aspects-of-metis-history-and-identity-from-the-eighteenth-to-the-twenty-first-centuries-paperback-softback-9781442627116","title":"From New Peoples to New Nations; Aspects of Metis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442627116","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom New Peoples to New Nations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAspects of Metis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGerhard Ens (Author), Joe Sawchuk (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442627116\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 December 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e704 pages, 1 figure, 19 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm, 0.94 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;Ens and Sawchuck have written the most comprehensive and balanced view of Métis history to date, which will provide much-needed context for all who seek to better understand who the Métis are and the centuries of struggle they have faced…. Highly recommended.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - B.F.R. Edwards (Choice Magazine vol 54:02:2016) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;\u003ci\u003eFrom New Nations to New Peoples\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important update to Métis history and historiography… Ens and Sawchuck\u0026amp;#x2019;s novel approach to the topic allows them to convincingly posit that Métis ethno-genesis is perpetual and continues to the present day via \"dialogical processes\".\u003c\/p\u003e - Émilie Pigeon (Labour\/Le Travail vol 78:2016) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;As a result of its diligent research and unique analytical perspective, \u003cem\u003eFrom New Peoples to New Nations \u003c\/em\u003ewill be a valuable resource for anyone interested in historical and contemporary Métis identities.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Gabrielle Legault (BC Studies winter 2016\/17) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;For its comprehensiveness, it would make an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses… Its considerable bibliography and broad treatment of Metis history will undoubtedly make it as a general reference on Metis history and identity.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Camie Augustus (Canadian Journal of History, vol 52:02:2017) \u003cp\u003e\"Tracing the intricate and layered process by which \u003ci\u003enew peoples\u003c\/i\u003e become \u003ci\u003enew nations\u003c\/i\u003e within politically, economically, and symbolically charges matrices, Ens and Sawchuk have contributed a theoretically and empirically bountiful text that one hopes will generate discussions within and outside of Métis studies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Nicholas Barron (History of Anthropology Newsletter, June 28, 2018)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom New Peoples to New Nations\u003c\/em\u003e is a broad historical account of the emergence of the Metis as distinct peoples in North America over the last three hundred years. Examining the cultural, economic, and political strategies through which communities define their boundaries, Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk trace the invention and reinvention of Metis identity from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Their work updates, rethinks, and integrates the many disparate aspects of Metis historiography, providing the first comprehensive narrative of Metis identity in more than fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on extensive archival materials, interviews, oral histories, ethnographic research, and first-hand working knowledge of Metis political organizations, \u003cem\u003eFrom New Peoples to New Nations\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the long and complex history of Metis identity from the Battle of Seven Oaks to today’s legal and political debates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction   \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Hybridity and Patterns of Ethnogenesis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One: Race and Nation: Changing Ethnological and Historical Constructions of Hybridity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Economic Ethnogenesis: The Fur Trade and Metissage in the 18th and 19th Centuries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: The Genesis and Development of the Idea of the Metis Nation to 1930\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Fur Trade Wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the Idea of the Metis Nation, 1811–1849\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Louis Riel and the Religion of Metis Nationalism, 1869–1885\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: L’Union Nationale MÉtisse Saint-Joseph, A.H. Tremaudan, and the Reimagining of the Metis Nation, 1910–1930s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Government Policy and Metis Status in the 19th Century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Six: The Manitoba Act and the Creation of Metis Status\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Extinguishing Rights and Inventing Categories: Metis Scrip as Policy and Self Ascription\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Indian Treaty versus Metis Scrip: The Permeability of Status Categories and Ethnicities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: The United States\/Canada Border and the Bifurcation of the Plains Metis 1870–1900\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Economic Marginalization and the Metis Political Response 1896–1960s\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: St. Paul des Metis Colony 1896–1909: Identity as Pathology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Metis Betterment Act of 1938\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: The Liberals, the CCF, and the Metis of Saskatchewan, 1935–1964\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Thirteen: Social Science and the Metis, 1950–1970\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart V: Politics, the Courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Metis Identities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Fourteen: A Renewed Political Awareness, 1965–2000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Fifteen: Reformulated Identities, 1965–2013\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Sixteen: The Metis of Ontario\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Seventeen: The Metis of the Northwest Territories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Eighteen: Ethnic Symbolism: Re-interpreting and Recreating the Past\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52588161630488,"sku":"9781442627116","price":29.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-new-peoples-to-new-nations-aspects-of-metis-history-and-identity-from-the-eighteenth-to-the-twenty-first-centuries-paperback-softback-9781442627116","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}