Author: Paul F. SharpPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806114842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Whoop-Up Country
Author: Paul F. SharpPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806114842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Goodlands
Author: Frances W. KayePublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1897425988
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
"Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency, according to which the Great Plains region was inadequate in flora and fauna and the region lacking in modern civilization. Drawing on history, sociology, art, and economic theory, Frances W. Kaye counters the argument of deficiency, pointing out that, in its original ecological state, no region can possibly be incomplete. Goodlands examines the settlers' misguided theory, discussing the ideas that shaped its implementation, the forces that resisted it, and Indigenous ideologies about what it meant to make good use of the land. By suggesting methods for redeveloping the Great Plains that are founded on native cultural values, Goodlands serves the region in the context of a changing globe."--Publisher's website.
Whoop-up Country
Author: Paul Frederick SharpPublisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806111025
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows
Author: Ian L. GettyPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774801812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This collection of papers focuses on Canadian Native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis. Issues and themes covered include colonial Indian policy, constitutional developments, Indian treaties and policy, government decision-making and Native responses reflecting both persistence and change, and the broad issue of aboriginal and treaty rights.
Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era
Author: Robert Walter JohannsenPublisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575911014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Robert W. Johannsen, professor emeritus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of the leading Jacksonian- and Civil War-era historians of his generation. Works such as his Stephen A. Douglas and To the Halls of the Montezumas have cemented his place in period scholarship. He also has mentored literally dozens of professional historians. In his honor, eleven of his students have gathered to contribute new essays on the period's history. On display here are cutting-edge examinations of thought and culture in the late Jacksonian era, new considerations of Manifest Destiny, and fascinating interpretations of the lives of the two political giants of the period, Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. Democratic Party politics and Civil War-era religion also come into play.
We Know Who We Are
Author: Martha Harroun FosterPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806182342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the Métis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada and the northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. Yet their Métis identity is often ignored or misunderstood in the United States. Unlike their counterparts in Canada, the U.S. Métis have never received federal recognition. In fact, their very identity has been questioned. In this rich examination of a Métis community—the first book-length work to focus on the Montana Métis—Martha 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. Despite overwhelming obstacles, the Métis have used the bonds of kinship and common history to strengthen and build their community. As Foster carefully traces the lineage of Métis families from the Spring Creek area, she shows how the people retained their sense of communal identity. She traces the common threads linking diverse Métis communities throughout Montana and lends insight into the nature of Métis 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.
Metis Pioneers
Author: Doris Jeanne MacKinnonPublisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 1772123633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women’s acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.
The Taming of the Canadian West
Author: Frank RaskyThe Cypress Hills
Author: Walter HildebrandtPublisher: Purich Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"Get them out" was a Canadian government policy to remove Aboriginal Peoples from the Cypress Hills area, according to Nekaneet Band Elder, Gordon Oakes, in this book's foreword. Walter Hildebrandt and Brian Hubner explain why the Cypress Hills - a 2,600 square kilometre plateau straddling the Alberta/Saskatchewan/US border - were an important gathering place for Aboriginal Peoples for thousands of years, and why the Canadian government did not want them there. The Indians and the Métis came because game and lodge pole pine were plentiful. Buffalo abounded and the authors describe all aspects of the buffalo hunt from spiritual preparation to the final kill. Fur traders and wolfers came, too, - mostly from Montana - and with them clashes between the different worlds leading to the 1873 Cypress Hills massacre. That event brought the North-West Mounted Police and led to the building of Fort Walsh in the Hills. It was in the Hills that Chief Sitting Bull and the Dakotas sought refuge after defeating Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn. While the NWMP worked to maintain peace, they also helped disperse Aboriginal Peoples from the area. As a result, today there is only one Indian Reserve in the Cypress Hills area.
Views from Fort Battleford
Author: Walter HildebrandtPublisher: Regina : Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book outlines the way of life that existed on the prairies before the Canadian presence was established, examining the various institutions that placed the Anglo-Canadian elite in a position of power by the 1880s. It investigates the role of the North West Mounted Police and the North-West Field Force in establishing Canadian hegomony and analyzes government policies that were employed to control those who were seen as a threat in the wake of the 1885 Resistance. It concludes with a description of the various interpretations for Fort Battleford.