{"id":19681,"date":"2012-01-09T02:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T02:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19681"},"modified":"2015-04-10T19:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T19:13:59","slug":"the-new-peoples-being-and-becoming-metis-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19681","title":{"rendered":"The New Peoples: Being and Becoming M\u00e9tis in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Peoples: Being and Becoming M\u00e9tis in North America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Manitoba Press<\/a>
\nOctober 1985
\n306 pages
\n30 b&w illustrations, notes, index
\nPaper ISBN: 9780887556173<\/p>\n

Edited by<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Peterson<\/a><\/strong>, Professor Emerita of History
\nWashington State University<\/em><\/p>\n

Jennifer S. H. Brown<\/a><\/strong>, Professor Emerita of History
\nUniversity of Winnipeg<\/em><\/p>\n

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The New Peoples<\/em> is the first major work to explore in a North American context the dimensions and meanings of a process fundamental to the European invasion and colonization of the western hemisphere: the intermingling of European and Native American peoples. This book is not about racial mixture, however, but rather about ethnogenesis\u2014about how new peoples, new ethnicities, and new nationalities come into being.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of the contributors to this volume were participants at the first international Conference on the M\u00e9tis in North America, hosted by the Newberry Library in Chicago. The purpose of that conference, and the collection that has grown out of it, has been to examine from a regionally comparative and multi-disciplinary vantage point several questions that lie at the heart of m\u00e9tis studies: What are the origins of the m\u00e9tis people? What economic, political, and\/or cultural forces prompted the m\u00e9tis<\/a> to coalesce as a self-conscious ethnic or national group? Why have some individuals and populations of mixed Indian and white ancestry identified themselves as white or Indian rather than as m\u00e9tis? What are the cultural expressions of m\u00e9tis identity? What does it mean to be m\u00e9tis today?<\/p>\n

In the opening section of the book, John Elgin Foster, Olive P. Dickason, and Jacqueline Peterson grapple with the chronologies and locations of the emergent m\u00e9tis peoples in the first centuries after contact. In the second section, essays by John Long on the James Bay “halfbreed,” Trudy Nicks and Kenneth Morgan on an indigenous m\u00e9tis community at Grande Cache, Alberta, Verne Dusenberry on the landless Chippewa of Montana, and Irene Spry on the m\u00e9tis and mixed-bloods of Ruperts Land reveal the difficulties in generalizing about m\u00e9tis groups, some of whom have only recently begun to apply that label to themselves. Sylvia Van Kirk, R. David Edmunds, and Jennifer S. H. Brown explore the other side of m\u00e9tis genesis: the individuals and groups who never coalesced into lasting m\u00e9tis communities. The foreword is by Marcel Giraud and the afterword by Robert K. Thomas. First published in the mid-1980s, The New Peoples<\/em> is considered a classic in the field of m\u00e9tis studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Peoples: Being and Becoming M\u00e9tis in North America University of Manitoba Press October 1985 306 pages 30 b&w illustrations, notes, index Paper ISBN: 9780887556173 Edited by Jacqueline Peterson, Professor Emerita of History Washington State University Jennifer S. H. Brown, Professor Emerita of History University of Winnipeg The New Peoples is the first major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1649,11,19,459,125,8,3015,20],"tags":[9178,9175,9176,9173,9183,9182,9184,9174,9180,9185,9179,9181,9172,9177],"class_list":["post-19681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-anthropology","category-books","category-canada","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-irene-spry","tag-jacqueline-peterson","tag-jennifer-s-h-brown","tag-john-elgin-foster","tag-john-long","tag-kenneth-morgan","tag-marcel-giraud","tag-olive-p-dickason","tag-r-david-edmunds","tag-robert-k-thomas","tag-sylvia-van-kirk","tag-trudy-nicks","tag-university-of-manitoba-press","tag-verne-dusenberry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681","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=19681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}