About this ebook
A collection of twelve scholarly essays examining the origins, development, diversity, and cultural life of Métis communities throughout North America. The contributors explore Métis origins in the Great Lakes and Red River regions, communities in Rupert’s Land, Montana, northeastern Ontario and Alberta, questions of identity, and aspects of Métis cultural life including art and the Michif language.
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About the author
Jacqueline Peterson is assistant professor of Native American Studies and History at Washington State University. Former assistant director of the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian, she won the 1984 Robert F. Heizer Award in ethnohistory.
Jennifer Brown is professor of history at the University of Winnipeg. An anthropologist and historian, she has written widely on fur-trade social history and ethnohistory.
