{"product_id":"putting-down-roots-metis-agency-land-use-and-women-s-food-labour-in-a-qu-appelle-valley-road-allowance-community-paperback-softback-9781772841022","title":"Putting Down Roots; Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community (Paperback \/ softback) 9781772841022","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePutting Down Roots\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMétis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCheryl Troupe (Author), Maria Campbell (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781772841022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 29 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 14 maps, 10 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMapping Métis history and cultural heritage through women’s work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCentring kinship and the strength of women, \u003cem\u003ePutting Down Roots\u003c\/em\u003e reframes Métis road allowance communities as sites of profound resistance and resilience, restoring Métis life in places, times, and scholarship where it has been obscured by settler narratives. These communities were not peripheral spaces where Métis lived as squatters, but places where families culturally thrived by visiting each other, telling stories, sharing food, and providing mutual aid. With stories of Métis li vyeu (Elders) as its foundation, this innovative study reveals the agency embedded in the everyday actions of women’s work, which sustained Métis identity, family systems, and relationships to land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheryl Troupe charts a century of Métis presence and persistence in the Qu’Appelle Valley, from the end of the buffalo hunt in the 1850s, through displacement following the northwest resistances, resettlement on fringe Crown lands, ongoing political activism and opposition to Canadian land-use practices, and finally the dissolution of the road allowance community along Katepwa Lake in the 1950s. Focusing on female kinship relationships and food production, \u003cem\u003ePutting Down Roots\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the ways women created the stability necessary to adapt to the rapidly changing economic, social, and political conditions that defined this period of Canadian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTroupe’s sophisticated use of oral histories, archival sources, genealogies, photographs, and deep mapping links people and their stories to the spaces that are important to them. Adding a new dimension to the study of Métis history, \u003cem\u003ePutting Down Roots\u003c\/em\u003e brings to life the tremendous cultural strength that characterized Métis road allowance communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Figures \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. “\u003cbr\u003eDown there in the Valley”\u003cbr\u003e: Introducing Bob and Margaret\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Daughters of the Country: Women’\u003cbr\u003es Labour in the Mé\u003cbr\u003etis World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Petitioning for Rights and Taking up Agriculture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Asserting Sovereignty to Secure Land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Securing Land Tenure: The North-West Half-Breed Scrip Commission and Homesteading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. “\u003cbr\u003eWe Got Our House Built by Seneca Roots”\u003cbr\u003e: Life on the Road Allowance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Going Hunting Rabbits: Women’\u003cbr\u003es Labour in Feeding the Family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Contesting Government Intervention into Harvesting Spaces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. “\u003cbr\u003eThis is a Michif Road”\u003cbr\u003e: Mé\u003cbr\u003etis Labour and Relief\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52637477077272,"sku":"9781772841022","price":20.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/putting-down-roots-metis-agency-land-use-and-women-s-food-labour-in-a-qu-appelle-valley-road-allowance-community-paperback-softback-9781772841022","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}