New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America Book

	Illustrations
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	3
Pt. I	Metis Origins: Discovery and Interpretation
	From "One Nation" in the Northeast to "New Nation" in the Northwest: A look at the emergence of the metis	19
	Many roads to Red River: Metis genesis in the Great Lakes region, 1680-1815	37
	Some questions and perspectives on the problem of metis roots	73
Pt. II	Communities in Diversity
	The metis and mixed-bloods of Rupert's Land before 1870	95
	Waiting for a day that never comes: The dispossessed metis of Montana	119
	Treaty No. 9 and fur trade company families: Northeastern Ontario's halfbreeds, Indians, petitioners and metis	137
	Grande Cache: The historic development of an indigenous Alberta metis population	163
Pt. III	Diasporas and Questions of Identity
	"Unacquainted with the laws of the civilized world": American attitudes toward the metis communities in the Old Northwest	185
	Diverging identities: The Presbyterian metis of St. Gabriel Street, Montreal	195
	"What if Mama is an Indian?": The cultural ambivalence of the Alexander Ross family	207
Pt. IV	Cultural Life
	In search of metis art	221
	What is Michif?: Language in the metis tradition	231
	Afterword	243
	Contributors	253
	Index	256