{"id":7640,"date":"2010-06-23T01:31:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T01:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7640"},"modified":"2010-09-26T19:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T19:03:20","slug":"telling-%e2%80%9cforgotten%e2%80%9d-metis-histories-through-family-community-and-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7640","title":{"rendered":"Telling \u201cForgotten\u201d M\u00e9tis Histories through Family, Community, and Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\/showrev.php?id=25161\" target=\"_blank\">Telling \u201cForgotten\u201d M\u00e9tis Histories through Family, Community, and Individuals [Book Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\" target=\"_blank\">H-Net Reviews<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2009<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/artsandscience.usask.ca\/history\/crc\/grads_phd.html\" target=\"_blank\">Camie Augustus<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Saskatchewan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>David McNab, Ute Lischke, eds.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7636\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: M\u00e9tis Identities and Family Histories.<\/em><\/a> Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. viii + 386 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-88920-523-9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still here.\u201d\u00a0This opening line from <em>The Long Journey of a Forgotten People <\/em>is fitting for a collection of essays on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C3%A9tis_people_(Canada)\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9tis<\/a> identity. Although they are, as the editors tell us, \u201cno longer Canada\u2019s forgotten people,\u201d a pre-1980s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historiography\" target=\"_blank\">historiographical<\/a> tradition in Canada had, indeed, forgotten them by confining them to a secondary role in Canada\u2019s national story.\u00a0If we were to take our cue from this historiography, the M\u00e9tis did not survive very long into the twentieth century, and had no history outside the political and economic contributions they made to Canada\u2019s founding\u2014particularly through their involvement in the fur trade and in the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manitoba\" target=\"_blank\">Manitoba<\/a>.\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Riel\" target=\"_blank\">Riel<\/a>-centrism which subsequently dominated in the literature, at least up to the 1980s, only confirmed the illusion that M\u00e9tis history was one-dimensional and event-based.\u00a0Consequently, so many of the stories, histories, and cultural practices of the M\u00e9tis remained (and still remain) relatively unknown in academic literature.\u00a0However, more recent changes in both focus and methodology have resulted in a new approach to M\u00e9tis history.\u00a0<em>The Long Journey of a Forgotten People<\/em>, edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlu.ca\/homepage.php?ct_id=320&amp;f_id=35&amp;grp_id=436\" target=\"_blank\">Ute Lischke<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodstone.atkinson.yorku.ca\/projects\/researchak\/people.nsf\/researcherprofile?readform&amp;shortname=dtmcnab\" target=\"_blank\">David T. McNab<\/a>, contributes to this growing field with a volume of essays that shifts the perspective from the national and political to the local and cultural by creating history through kinship, genealogy, and biography&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\/showrev.php?id=25161\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telling \u201cForgotten\u201d M\u00e9tis Histories through Family, Community, and Individuals [Book Review] H-Net Reviews October 2009 Camie Augustus University of Saskatchewan David McNab, Ute Lischke, eds. The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: M\u00e9tis Identities and Family Histories. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. viii + 386 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-88920-523-9. \u201cWe are still here.\u201d\u00a0This opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,19,459,6],"tags":[3176,3175,3174,3036,3173],"class_list":["post-7640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-canada","category-history","category-new-media","tag-camie-augustus","tag-david-mcnab","tag-david-t-mcnab","tag-h-net-reviews","tag-ute-lischke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640","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=7640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}