Province & Local, Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Métis, Louis Riel, Prairie Provinces 

Canadian Plains Studies 

"This book contains a collection of articles concerning the Western Metis, published in Prairie Forum between 1978 and 2007. These articles have been chosen for the breadth and scope of the investigations upon which they are based, and for the reflections they will arouse in anyone interested in Western Canadian history and politics." -Amazon 

Content
1 Genesis
2 The Métis: The people and the term
3 Indigenous knowledge, literacy and research on Métissage and Métis origins on the Saskatchewan River: The case of the Jerome family
4 The northern Great Plains: Pantry of the Northwestern fur trade
5 The Twatt family, 1780-1840: Amerindian, ethnic category, or ethnic group?
6 Wintering, the outsider adult male and the ethnogenesis of the westers plains Métis
7 The market for Métis lands in Manitoba: Exploratory study
8 Dispossession vs. accommodation in Plaintiff vs. defendant accounts
9 Métis land claims at St. Laurent: Old arguments and new evidence
10 Thomas Scott and the daughter of time
11 The charismatic pattern: Canada's Riel Rebellion of 1885 as a millenarian protest movement
12 Louis Riel and siting bull's Sioux: Three lost letters
13 Battle of Batoche
14 Another father confederation  

Essays originally published in Prairie forum between 1978-2004.

Includes map on cover, p. [2].