Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. table of contents vii
3. acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Complicating Categories
6. “Bury Our Sorrows in the Sacred Heart”: Gender and the Métis Response to Colonialism – The Case of Sara and Louis Riel, 1848–83 17
7. “From One Whose Home Is among the Indians”: Henrietta Muir Edwards and Aboriginal Peoples 47
8. Clare Sheridan’s Western Interlude: The Importance of Being Well-Connected 79
9. A Conversation with Senator Thelma Chalifoux 93
10. Colonial Projects and Their Legacies
11. Aboriginal and White Women in the Publications of John Maclean, Egerton Ryerson Young, and John McDougall 101
12. The “S” Word: Reclaiming “Esquao” for Aboriginal Women 123
13. White Sauce and Chinese Chews: Recipes as Postcolonial Metaphors 129
14. Family, Region, Nation
15. “Complicated and Clouded”: The Federal Administration of Marriage and Divorce among the First Nations of Western Canada, 1887–1906 151
16. Advice Ideals and Rural Prairie Realities: National and Prairie Scientific Motherhood Advice, 1920–29 179
17. “I Think So Much of Edward”: Family, Favouritism, and Gender on a Prairie Farm in the 1930s 205
18. From the Inside Looking Out
19. My Mother’s Trunk 241
20. Washtub Westerns 251
21. Delicious Moments: Uncovering the Hidden Lives of Western Canada’s Black Pioneer Women 267
22. Nursing Students at Medicine Hat General Hospital, 1894–1920 277
23. Negotiating Constraints
24. Peak Potentials and Performance Anxieties: Gender, Mountaineering, and Leadership in the Canadian West, 1906–40 311
25. Lena Hanen and the Conflicts of Leadership in the Twentieth Century 341
26. They Called Her Chief: A Tribute to Fort MacKay’s Indomitable Leader, Dorothy McDonald 355
27. Conclusion: Unsettled Futures: Will Our Stories Be Forgotten? 363
28. contributors 371
29. bibliography 375
30. index 403