Author: Nicole St-Onge
Publisher: University of Regina Press
ISBN: 9780889771734
Category : Manitoba
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Examines the development of Metis identity and pride through the accounts of selected families and their descendants.
Author: Chantal Fiola
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887559352
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola’s award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as “all Métis people are Catholic,” and “Métis people do not go to ceremonies.” Fiola finds that, among the Métis, spirituality exists on a continuum of Indigenous and Christian traditions, and that Métis spirituality includes ceremonies. For some Métis, it is a historical continuation of the relationships their ancestral communities have had with ceremonies since time immemorial, and for others, it is a homecoming – a return to ceremony after some time away. Fiola employs a Métis-specific and community-centred methodology to gather evidence from archives, priests’ correspondence, oral history, storytelling, and literature. With assistance from six Métis community researchers, Fiola listened to stories and experiences shared by thirty-two Métis from six Manitoba Métis communities that are at the heart of this book. They offer insight into their families’ relationships with land, community, culture, and religion, including factors that inhibit or nurture connection to ceremonies such as sweat lodge, Sundance, and the Midewiwin. Valuable profiles emerge for six historic Red River Métis communities (Duck Bay, Camperville, St Laurent, St François-Xavier, Ste Anne, and Lorette), providing a clearer understanding of identity, culture, and spirituality that uphold Métis Nation sovereignty.
Author: Cole Harris
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same time, how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space. It also shows how an archipelago of scattered settlement emerged out of an encounter with a parsimonious territory, and suggests how deeply this encounter differed from an American relationship with abundance. The book begins with a description of land and life in northern North America in 1500, and ends by considering the relationship between the pattern of early Canada and the country as we know it today. Intended to illuminate the background of modern Canada, The Reluctant Land is an intelligent discussion of people and place that will be welcomed by scholars and lay readers alike.
Author: Guy Albert Sylvestre Lavallée
Publisher: G. Lavallee
ISBN: 9780968276914
Category : Métis
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Author: David R. Coutu
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Fracois Cottu de Lavaltrie (1649-1729) was born in France and immigrated to Canada, ca. 1675, settling on a farm in Lavaltrie, Quebec. He married Jeanne Verdon in 1682 at Quebec City. They had two children, 1684-1687. He married 2) Marie Louise Lesiege in 1691 at Montreal, Quebec. They had sixteen children, 1692-1718. He was buried at St. Sulpice, Quebec. Descendants of his sons, Daniel Louis Cottu (1696-1790) and Etienne Cottu (1712-1786), following the male line only, lived in Quebec, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ontario, and elsewhere.
Author: Louise Duguay
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554830
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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In the first part of the twentieth century few women in western Canada had careers as artists—Pauline Boutal had three: 23 years as a fashion illustrator for the Eaton’s catalogue for the graphic design company, Brigden’s of Winnipeg, 27 years as the Artistic Director at the Cercle Molière Theatre and 70 years as a visual artist. Born in Brittany in 1894, Boutal painted in a traditional style and trained at the Winnipeg School of Art, the Cape Cod School of Art, and at l'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France. She left an important legacy of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and illustrations as well as theatre sets and costume designs. This English translation of Louise Duguay’s award-winning "Pauline Boutal: Destin d'artiste 1894–1992" shares the story of an important artist who lived an exceptional life. Today a great number of Boutal’s works can be found in major private and corporate collections across Canada. For her contribution to the French culture and theatre in Canada, Boutal was awarded numerous prestigious prizes, including the Order of Canada. In addition to thousands of sketches, illustrations, and paintings, Boutal also left a rich legacy of letters, speeches and interviews at the Centre du Patrimoine Canadien. Drawing on these sources, Louise Duguay has created a work that honours the best of biography and autobiography.
Author: Rosa del Carmen Bruno-Jofré
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773529543
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Bruno-Jofré draws extensively from private archives and oral histories to bring to light the inner life of the congregation and their educational work. She demonstrates that the Sisters played an important role in building a French Canadian identity in Manitoba and Quebec and provides a glimpse into their complex relationship with the Oblate Fathers including their role as auxiliaries in the residential schools.
Author: Jordan Skipper
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312194146
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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A reference of the Allarie family and the Dumas family in Manitoba. The combined history of these two families contributes to the history of the Metis people and Western Canada.
Author: Nicole St-Onge
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806146346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth century as a distinct culture. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity that takes center stage in most discussions of Metis culture to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity. Geography, mobility, and family have always defined Metis culture and society. The Metis world spanned the better part of a continent, and a major theme of Contours of a People is the Metis conception of geography—not only how Metis people used their environments but how they gave meaning to place and developed connections to multiple landscapes. Their geographic familiarity, physical and social mobility, and maintenance of family ties across time and space appear to have evolved in connection with the fur trade and other commercial endeavors. These efforts, and the cultural practices that emerged from them, have contributed to a sense of community and the nationalist sentiment felt by many Metis today. Writing about a wide geographic area, the contributors consider issues ranging from Metis rights under Canadian law and how the Library of Congress categorizes Metis scholarship to the role of women in maintaining economic and social networks. The authors’ emphasis on geography and its power in shaping identity will influence and enlighten Canadian and American scholars across a variety of disciplines.
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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