"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
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Royal Canadian Geographic Society
Publisher
Ottawa, Ont. : Royal Canadian Geographical Society : National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation : Assembly of First Naitons : Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami : Me´tis National Council : Indspire
Ottawa, Ont. : Royal Canadian Geographical Society : National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation : Assembly of First Naitons : Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami : Me´tis National Council : Indspire
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
4 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 32 cm
"In this atlas, you will find outstanding reference maps of Indigenous Canada, as well as a section devoted to Truth and Reconciliation, including detailed pages on many aspects of the topic with contemporary and historical photography, maps and more. There's also a glossary of common Indigenous terms."--page [4] of cover volume 1.
Summary: In 1806 Metis guide Jacco Findlay was the first to blaze a packtrail over Howse Pass and the Continental Divide. He made a map for Canadian explorer David Thompson, who followed one year later. Jacco left the North West Company and became the first "Freeman" or "Otipemisiwak" in the Athabasca Valley. In 1907 the Canadian Government passed an Order in Council for the creation of the "Jasper Forest Park" enforcing the evacuation of the Metis in the Athabasca Valley. By 1909 guns were seized causing the community to surrender its homeland including Jacco's descendants. Six Metis families made their exodus after inhabiting the area for a century. This documentary, focuses on a 14-day return trip of the descendants of the evicted families, as well as Jacco's progeny. Storied are shared through the voices of family members as they reveal their struggle to preserve traditions and culture as Mountain Metis.
ISBN
829982125729
Call Number
07.2 W68l DVD
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for film and Mountain Metis - Otipemisiwak
Metis and the Medicine Line is a sprawling, ambitious look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous lands. It is also an intimate story of individuals and families, brought vividly to life by history writing at its best. It begins with the emergence of the Plains Metis and ends with the fracturing of their communities as the Canada-U. S. border was enforced. It also explores the borderland world of the Northern Plains, where an astonishing diversity of people met and mingled: Blackfoot, Cree, Gros Ventre, Lakota, Dakota, Nez Perce, Assiniboine, Anishinaabes, Metis, Europeans, Canadians, Americans, soldiers, police, settlers, farmers, hunters, traders, bureaucrats. In examining the battles that emerged over who belonged on what side of the border, Hogue disputes Canada's peaceful settlement story of the Prairie West and challenges familiar bromides about the "world's longest undefended border. (From U of R Press website)
Contents
Emergence : creating a Metis borderland -- Exchange : trade, sovereignty, and the forty-ninth parallel -- Belonging : land, treaties, and the boundaries of race -- Resistance : dismantling Plains Metis borderland settlements, 1879-1885 -- Exile : scrip and enrollment commissions and the shifting boundaries of belonging, 1885-1920.
Pertains to Mountain Metis - Otipemisiwak - around Jasper National Park, specifically those businnesses run by Metis people including Blue Diamond Mountain Inn, Alberta Rockies Adventures and Mahikan Trails.
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.04, May 2019
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
Summary: Following the lead of historic women who challenged the traditions of the day, blazing trails into a man's world on horseback in the Canadian Rockies, modern generations of women face their own challenges to travel these same trails.
Contents: Caroline Hinman; Sophia Hargreaves; Ishebel (Hargreaves) Cochrane; Susan Feddema-Leonard
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.