| The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories Contributor(s): Lischke, Ute (Editor), McNab, David T. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 088920523X ISBN-13: 9780889205239 Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press OUR PRICE: $43.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Known as "Canada's forgotten people," the Metis have long been here, but until 1982 they lacked the legal status of Native people. At that point, however, the Metis were recognized in the constitution as one of Canada's Aboriginal peoples. A significant addition to Metis historiography, "The Long Journey of a Forgotten People" includes Metis voices and personal narratives that address the thorny and complicated issue of Metis identity from historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics include eastern Canadian Metis communities; British military personnel and their mixed-blood descendants; life as a Metis woman; and the Metis peoples ongoing struggle for recognition of their rights, including discussion of recent Supreme Court rulings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | Canada - General - History | Native American |
| Dewey: 971.004 |
| LCCN: 2007532100 |
| Series: Aboriginal Studies |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.30 lbs) 370 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Known as "Canada's forgotten people," the M tis have long been here, but until 1982 they lacked the legal status of Native people. At that point, however, the M tis were recognized in the constitution as one of Canada's Aboriginal peoples. A significant addition to M tis historiography, The Long Journey of a Forgotten People includes M tis voices and personal narratives that address the thorny and complicated issue of M tis identity from historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics include eastern Canadian M tis communities; British military personnel and their mixed-blood descendants; life as a M tis woman; and the M tis peoples ongoing struggle for recognition of their rights, including discussion of recent Supreme Court rulings. |
Contributor Bio(s): McNab, David T.: - David T. McNab is a Métis historian who has worked for three decades on Aboriginal land and treaty rights issues in Canada. McNab teaches in the School of Arts and Letters in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University in Toronto where he is Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies. He has also been a claims advisor for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig., Walpole Island Heritage Center, Bkejwanong First Nations since 1992. In addition to more than seventy articles, McNab has published Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory (editor) (1998) and Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario (1999) as well as the co-edited (with Ute Lischke) Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), and The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories, (2007) all with WLU Press.Lischke, Ute: - Ute Lischke teaches German literature, film studies and cultural perspectives at Wilfrid Laurier University where she is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies. Lischke is the author of Lily Braun, 1865-1916 German Writer, Feminist, Socialist (2000). Her most recent books, edited with David T. McNab, include Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), and The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories, (2007) all with WLU Press. |