{"id":11653,"date":"2011-01-21T22:12:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2011-01-21T22:12:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:12:57","slug":"we-know-who-we-are-metis-identity-in-a-montana-community-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11653","title":{"rendered":"We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Oklahoma Press
\n<\/a>2006
\n304 pages
\n6″ x 9″
\nIllustrations: 8 b&w illus., 5 tables
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780806137056<\/p>\n

Martha Harroun Foster<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History
\nMiddle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro<\/em><\/p>\n

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They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa<\/a>, Cree<\/a>, French<\/a>, and Scottish<\/a> descent, the M\u00e9tis<\/a> people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada<\/a> and the northwestern United States<\/a> for nearly two hundred years. Yet their M\u00e9tis identity is often ignored or misunderstood in the United States. Unlike their counterparts in Canada, the U.S. M\u00e9tis have never received federal recognition. In fact, their very identity has been questioned.<\/p>\n

In this rich examination of a M\u00e9tis community\u2014the first book-length work to focus on the Montana<\/a> M\u00e9tis\u2014Martha Harroun Foster combines social, political, and economic analysis to show how its people have adapted to changing conditions while retaining a strong sense of their own unique culture and traditions.<\/p>\n

Despite overwhelming obstacles, the M\u00e9tis have used the bonds of kinship and common history to strengthen and build their community. As Foster carefully traces the lineage of M\u00e9tis families from the Spring Creek area, she shows how the people retained their sense of communal identity. She traces the common threads linking diverse M\u00e9tis communities throughout Montana and lends insight into the nature of M\u00e9tis identity in general. And in raising basic questions about the nature of ethnicity, this pathbreaking work speaks to the difficulties of ethnic identification encountered by all peoples of mixed descent.<\/p>\n

Read a preview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community University of Oklahoma Press 2006 304 pages 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 8 b&w illus., 5 tables Hardcover ISBN: 9780806137056 Martha Harroun Foster, Associate Professor of History Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,459,8,17,3015,20],"tags":[5258,5257,1769,1768,1770],"class_list":["post-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-martha-foster","tag-martha-h-foster","tag-martha-harroun-foster","tag-montana","tag-university-of-oklahoma-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}