Social Science Native American Studies
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2009
- Category
- Native American Studies, Native American, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780889209589
- Publish Date
- Aug 1988
- List Price
- $85
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889209640
- Publish Date
- Aug 2009
- List Price
- $45.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554587919
- Publish Date
- Aug 2009
- List Price
- $42.99
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Description
“In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act.... Sprague offers many examples of the methods used, such as legislation justifying the sale of the land allotted to Métis children without any of the safeguards ordinarily required in connection with transactions with infants. Then there were powers of attorny, tax sales—any number of stratgems could be used, and were—to see that the land intended for the Métis and their families went to others. All branches of the government participated. It is a shameful tale, but one that must be told.”
— from the foreword by Thomas R. Berger
About the authors
D.N. Sprague has been teaching history at the University of Manitoba since 1971. In 1978 he began working with the Manitoba Métis Federation to develop the history of the administration of the land promised the Métis by the Government of Canada. His articles on the subject have appeared in Canadian Ethnic Studies, The Journal of Canadian History, and The Manitoba Law Journal. Professor Sprague's other publications are in the fields of general Canadian history and historical methods. He is co-author of The Structure of Canadian History.
Thomas Rodney Berger QC OC OBC was a Canadian politician and jurist. He was briefly a member of the House of Commons of Canada in the early 1960s and was a justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 1971 to 1983. In 1974, he became the royal commissioner of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, which released its findings in 1977. He was a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. Justice Berger died on April 28, 2021.
Editorial Reviews
... sufficiently important to establish Canada and the Métis as the new interpretive standard.
Canadian Book Review Annual
"If Canada and the Métis causes serious scholarly re-examination of other accepted assumptions about the Métis, then the history of Canada stands to benefit."
Native Studies Review, 5
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