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This article challenges the ideological position that denies the historical existence of Métis in Québec. Responding to accusations such that Eastern Métis are “zombies” with no “living” traditions, this paper has two objectives. First, it explores some political and juridical elements that help explain the emergence of such reactionary rhetoric. It then presents the oral tradition of Marie-Louise Riel, reported as protecting the Métis leader in the Outaouais region during his political exile. Through the exploration of this oral history, we offer examples of Eastern-Western Métis kinship and solidarity that defy the territorial reification of Métis culture as being a West-only phenomenon. Together, the evidence compiled and reviewed offers compelling reasons to assert that the Outaouais Métis are bearers of a distinct identity—an identity that many of their descendants still value today. Keywords Métis; Québec; Oral tradition; Outaouais; Louis Riel
2015
This monograph on the Michif language was published by the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana in cooperation with the Louis Riel Institute, Winnipeg, Manitoba. A bibliography of Michif language resources.
Bridging National Borders in North America, 2020
2015
The fur trade in northern North America during the period of 1760-1840 introduced both Europeans and First Nations peoples to new sounds, musical forms, and dances. Permeating nearly every aspect of the fur trade’s operation, from travel and transportation, cross-cultural encounters, establishing and strengthening relationships, exchanging material goods, and celebrating holidays and special occasions, a distinct soundscape and musical culture developed. First alerted to the presence of Europeans by the sounds of gunpowder, customs of saluting and signaling by firing weaponry were soon adopted and adapted by First Nations peoples in their activities and interactions with fur traders. The colonial warfare that characterized the Great Lakes for much of this period introduced military instruments such as drums, bugles, and bagpipes to the trading posts, which gradually shed their disciplinary associations and were employed instead in fur trade rituals and recreational activities. While...
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's Family Pride As History, 2021
Jane Schoolcraft has been turned into a celebrity, even showing up as a focus in “academic” books and dissertations, without new sources or improved analysis—projecting sensitivity is not analysis. In her mother’s culture, such attention would have led her to being disparaged, for putting on airs, as with her maternal grandfather for the exaggerated claim of descent from a long line of hereditary chiefs. There is no excuse for recent authors taking the family story at face value. However, the most credible versions, evaluated in the context of other sources and of scholarship by those with actual expertise on the subject, do shed light on Ojibwe history and migrations, especially at Chequamegon in the 1700s. They also raise questions about the origins of enmity between Ojibwe and Meskwaki (Fox), which can be compared with Meskwaki oral history.
Venice Reconsidered: Arts and Identities between the War of Chioggia and the Fall of Constantinople I-II, organizers: V. Baradel and Z. Murat, 63rd RSA Annual General Meeting, Chicago, 1 April 2017
La Nave Romana di Albenga. Studi, progetti e ricerche per il nuovo Museo, 2022
Divided Publishing, 2020
Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context, Northwestern University Press, 2020
Acta Histochemica, 2019
Cuerpos y Diversidades: Desafíos encarnados, 2024
Volume 10, 2023
Islamic Education, 2024
Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Sciences, 2013
Natural Product Research, 2019
Revue Internationale de la Recherche Scientifique (Revue-IRS), 2024