{"id":30643,"date":"2013-04-25T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T04:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30643"},"modified":"2017-04-12T00:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T00:31:36","slug":"homeland-to-hinterland-the-changing-worlds-of-the-red-river-metis-in-the-nineteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30643","title":{"rendered":"Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River M\u00e9tis in the Nineteenth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utppublishing.com\/Homeland-to-Hinterland-The-Changing-Worlds-of-the-Red-River-Metis-in-the-Nineteenth-Century.html\" target=\"_blank\">Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River M\u00e9tis in the Nineteenth Century<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">University of Toronto Press<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 1996<br \/>\n268 pages<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9780802008350<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 9780802078223<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyandclassics.ualberta.ca\/People\/Faculty\/EnsGerhard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gerhard J. Ens<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Alberta<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utppublishing.com\/Homeland-to-Hinterland-The-Changing-Worlds-of-the-Red-River-Metis-in-the-Nineteenth-Century.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51vOvMq2dOL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most writing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9tis<\/a> history has concentrated on the Resistance of 1869-70 and the Rebellion of 1885, without adequately explaining the social and economic origins of the M\u00e9tis that shaped those conflicts. Historians have often emphasized the aboriginal aspect of the M\u00e9tis heritage, stereotyping the M\u00e9tis as a primitive people unable or unwilling to adjust to civilized life and capitalist society.<\/p>\n<p>In this social and economic history of the M\u00e9tis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_River_Colony\" target=\"_blank\">Red River Settlement<\/a>, specifically the parishes of St Francois-Xavier and St Andrew&#8217;s, Gerhard Ens argues that the M\u00e9tis participated with growing confidence in two worlds: one Indian and pre-capitalist, the other European and capitalist. <strong>Ens maintains that M\u00e9tis identity was not defined by biology or blood but rather by the economic and social niche they carved out for themselves within the fur trade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ens finds that the M\u00e9tis, rather than being overwhelmed, adapted quickly to the changed economic conditions of the 1840s and actually influenced the nature of change. The opening of new markets and the rise of the buffalo robe trade fed a `cottage industry&#8217; whose increasing importance had significant repercussions for the maintenance of ethnic boundaries, the nature of M\u00e9tis response to the Riel Resistance, and the eventual decline of the Red River Settlement as a M\u00e9tis homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this social and economic history of the M\u00e9tis of the Red River Settlement, specifically the parishes of St Francois-Xavier and St Andrew&#8217;s, Gerhard Ens argues that the M\u00e9tis participated with growing confidence in two worlds: one Indian and pre-capitalist, the other European and capitalist. Ens maintains that M\u00e9tis identity was not defined by biology or blood but rather by the economic and social niche they carved out for themselves within the fur trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,459,8,17],"tags":[14526,14525,10060],"class_list":["post-30643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-canada","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-gerhard-ens","tag-gerhard-j-ens","tag-university-of-toronto-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30643","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=30643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53431,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30643\/revisions\/53431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}