Eastern Métis

Chronicling and Reclaiming a Denied Past

Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, Siomonn Pulla

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781793605443
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Social Sciences

In Eastern Métis, Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, and Siomonn Pulla demonstrate the historical and social evidence for the origins and continued existence of Métis communities across Ontario, Quebec, and the Canadian Maritimes as well as the West. Contributors to this edited collection explore archival and historical records that challenge narratives which exclude the possibility of Métis communities and identities in central and eastern Canada. Taking a continental rhizomatic approach, this book provides a rich and nuanced view of what it means to be Métis.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Symbolic Violence against the “Other Métis”: The Making of a New Forgotten People in Canada
• 2 Political Ontologies in Turmoil: Métis “Neo-Nationalism” and the “Other Métis”
• 3 The Languages of the Métis in Canada
• 4 Situating Nova Scotia Métis Identities in a Colonial Past
• 5 The Acadian Métis on the Geographic and Social Margins
• 6 Métissage and Métis Identity in the Gaspé Peninsula: From Its Origins to the 1886 Paspébiac Riots
• 7 Undercoat Communities: The Geohistorical Scaling of Métis Identity in the East
• 8 “The Lowest Race of Any in Canada”: Mitifs from the Fur Trade and the Voyageurs Parishes of St. Lawrence Valley
• 9 Understanding the Impacts of a Transitional and Mixed Regional Economy on the Emergence of the Historic Métis of Mattawa
• 10 The Voyageur Métis of Penetanguishene: An Examination of the Ethnohistory of the Métis in Ontario
• 11 The Story of French Canadian Métis Voyageur Joseph Dussault in the Pacific Northwest
• 12 The Case of Maxim Cormier and the Unrecognized Acadian Métis: Between Criminalization and Group Lateral Violence
• 13 “This Hero of Whom the Métis Nation at Large Must Be Proud”: Private Patrick Riel of Maniwaki
• Index
• About the Authors