Partial contents: "Categories and terrains of exclusion: Constructing the 'Indian Woman' in the early settlement era in Western Canada" by Sarah Carter
"This book relates the history and self-identifying process of a Me´tis woman who lived on the western plains of Canada during the transitional period from fur trade to sedentary agricultural economy. Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Me´tis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. Sold by her mother at the age of sixteen to a robe and whiskey trader several years older than her, Marie Rose went on to raise seventeen children, establish a boarding house, take a homestead, serve as medicine woman and midwife, and to publish several articles in the early prairie ranch periodical, Canadian Cattlemen. The author relies on close readings of these articles, as well as the diaries, manuscripts, and fictional writing of Marie Rose Delorme Smith, along with personal interviews with her descendants. These sources allow a close examination of the self-identifying process for Marie Rose as she negotiated the changing environment of the western plains during the late 1800s and early 1900s when large numbers of Anglo-speaking immigrants settled in the area. Clearly proud of her Me´tis identity, Marie Rose was a member of an extended family who served as Louis Riel's soldiers, and she presented that identity tentatively in her own writings. Roles which Marie Rose assumed with pride were those of author, historian, mother, and historical character, and these roles serve as themes from which to examine her life."--Publisher's website.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - the historical character
Chapter 2 - the "historian"
Chapter 3 - the person
Chapter 4 - the author
Conclusion
Appendix 1 - terms and sources
Appendix 2 - descendants of Joseph Henault et Enaud dit Canada
Summary: This documentary will not only take you to this special place, it will move you to let this place inside. The story of Willmore Wilderness Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is as much about the land and wildlife as it is about the people who speak up on behalf of this wilderness. The characters we meet reveal the rare natural, social and cultural values that combine to make this place valuable in the present, and into the future.