The Western Metis: Profile of a People (Canadian Plains Studies)

Regina, SK: University of Regina Press and The Canadian Plains Research Center, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. This book looks new -- with a crisp, clean interior and card covers in excellent condition. Synopsis: "This book contains a collection of articles concerning the Western Metis, published in Prairie Forum between 1978 and 2007." Contents: 1. Genesis / Patrick C. Douaud ; 2. The Metis: the people and the term / John E. Foster; 3. Indigenous knowledge, literacy and research on metissage and Metis origins on the Saskatchewan River: the case of the Jerome Family / Ruth Swan & Edward A. Jerome; 4. The northern Great Plains: pantry of the Northwestern fur trade, 1774-1885 / Arthur J. Ray; 5. The Twatt Family, 1780-1840: Amerindian, ethnic category or ethnic group identity? / Paul C. Thistle; 6. Wintering, the outsider adult male and the ethnogenesis of the western plains Metis / John E. Foster; 7. The market for Metis lands in Manitoba: an exploratory study / Thomas Flanagan; 8. Dispossession vs. accommodation in plaintiff vs. defendant accounts of Metis dispersal from Manitoba, 1870-1881 / D. N. Sprague ; 9. Metis land claims at St. Laurent: old arguments and new evidence / Thomas Flanagan; 10. Thomas Scott and the daughter of time / J. M. Bumsted ; 11. The charismatic pattern: Canada's Riel Rebellion of 1885 as a millenarian protest movement / Manfred Mossmann; 12. Louis Riel and Sitting Bull's Sioux: three lost letters / David G. McCrady; 13. The battle of Batoche / Walter Hildebrandt; 14. Another father of Confederation? / Walter Hildebrandt