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The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation
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“Should these miserable halfbreeds not disband, they must be put down.” Sir John A. MacDonald, quoted on p. 200.
“The Métis Nation has always regarded Canada’s claim to be a well-ordered society as a myth based on complacency, habit, exclusion, and denial.” p. 463.
This is a well-written, highly engaging history of the Métis Nation. The author is a Métis woman, immersed in her culture and its history, and a lawyer who has fought repeatedly in the Supreme Court for the claims and rights of the Métis Nation. She is a great-grandniece of Louis Riel. Her book brings a much-needed perspective to Canadian history to counter the settler version that has prevailed for two centuries.
Read this alongside James Daschuk (2013) Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life. This is one more piece of history that Canadians have viewed through tight-fitting blinkers. Canadians desperately need a People’s History of Canada to compare with Howard Zinn’s book on the U.S.A.
“The Métis Nation has always regarded Canada’s claim to be a well-ordered society as a myth based on complacency, habit, exclusion, and denial.” p. 463.
This is a well-written, highly engaging history of the Métis Nation. The author is a Métis woman, immersed in her culture and its history, and a lawyer who has fought repeatedly in the Supreme Court for the claims and rights of the Métis Nation. She is a great-grandniece of Louis Riel. Her book brings a much-needed perspective to Canadian history to counter the settler version that has prevailed for two centuries.
Read this alongside James Daschuk (2013) Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life. This is one more piece of history that Canadians have viewed through tight-fitting blinkers. Canadians desperately need a People’s History of Canada to compare with Howard Zinn’s book on the U.S.A.
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