One of the family : Metis culture in nineteenth-century northwestern Saskatchewan / Brenda Macdougall.
"In this groundbreaking study, Brenda Macdougall employs the concept of wahkootowin – the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values interconnectedness – to trace the emergence of a Metis community in northern Saskatchewan. Wahkootowin describes how relationships worked and helps to explain how the Metis negotiated with local economic and religious institutions while nurturing a society that emphasized family obligation and responsibility. This innovative exploration of the birth of Metis identity offers a model for future research and discussion."-- goodreads.com
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- ISBN: 9780774817301 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xxii, 335 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "They are strongly attached to the country of rivers, lakes, and forests": the social landscapes of the Northwest -- "The bond that connected one human being to another": social construction of the Metis family -- "To live in the land of my mother": residency and patronymic connections across the Northwest -- "After a man has tasted of the comforts of married life this living alone comes pretty tough": family, acculturation, and Roman Catholicism -- "The only men obtainable who know the country and Indians are all married": family, labour, and the HBC -- "The halfbreeds of this place always did and always will dance": competition, freemen, and contested spaces -- "I thought it advisable to furnish him": freemen to free traders in the Northwest Fur Trade. |
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Castlegar Campus Library | FC 113 M33 2010 (Text)
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