The New Peoples
Being and Becoming Métis
- Publisher
- University of Manitoba Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 1985
- Category
- Native American, General, Native American Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887556173
- Publish Date
- Nov 1985
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887550386
- Publish Date
- Nov 1985
- List Price
- $24.99
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Description
Leading Canadian and American scholars explore the dimension and meaning of the intermingling of European and Native American peoples.
About the authors
Jacqueline Peterson is assistant professor of Native American Studies and History at Washington State University. Former assistant director of the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian, she won the 1984 Robert F. Heizer Award in ethnohistory.
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Jennifer S. H. Brown taught history at the University of Winnipeg for twenty-eight years and held a Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal history from 2004 to 2011. She served as director of the Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies, which focuses on Aboriginal peoples and the fur trade of the Hudson Bay watershed, from 1996 to 2010. She is the editor of the Rupert’s Land Record Society documentary series (McGill-Queen’s University Press), which publishes original materials on Aboriginal and fur trade history. She now resides in Denver, Colorado, where she continues her scholarly work.
Editorial Reviews
"An indispensable introduction to the complexity of Métis communities."
American Historical Review
"A significant contribution to our understanding of this recent field of historic endeavour."
Canadian Historical Review
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