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11. Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Métis Population Betterment Act of 1938

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© 2018 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

© 2018 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Figures and Tables vii
  4. Acknowledgments ix
  5. Abbreviations xi
  6. From New Peoples to New Nations. Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries 1
  7. Introduction 3
  8. Part I: Hybridity and Patterns of Ethnogenesis
  9. 1. Race and Nation: Changing Ethnological and Historical Constructions of Hybridity 13
  10. 2. Economic Ethnogenesis: The Fur Trade and Métissage in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 42
  11. Part II: The Genesis and Development of the Idea of the Métis Nation to the 1930s
  12. Introduction 67
  13. 3. Fur Trade Wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the Idea of the Métis Nation, 1811–1849 71
  14. 4. Louis Riel and the Religion of Métis Nationalism, 1869–1885 92
  15. 5. L’Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph, A.-H. de Trémaudan, and the Re-imagining of the Métis Nation, 1910 to the 1930s 113
  16. Part III: Government Policy and the Invention of Métis Status in the Nineteenth Century
  17. 6. The Manitoba Act and the Creation of a Métis Status 133
  18. 7. Extinguishing Rights and Inventing Categories: Métis Scrip as Policy and Self-Ascription 155
  19. 8. Indian Treaty versus Métis Scrip: The Permeability of Status Categories and Ethnicities 190
  20. 9. The United States / Canada Border and the Bifurcation of the Plains Métis, 1870–1900 217
  21. Part IV: Economic Marginalization and the Métis Political Response, 1896 to the 1960s
  22. Introduction 239
  23. 10. St Paul des Métis Colony, 1896–1909: Identity as Pathology 243
  24. 11. Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Métis Population Betterment Act of 1938 256
  25. 12. The Liberals, the CCF, and the Métis of Saskatchewan, 1935–1964 288
  26. 13. Social Science and the Métis, 1950–1970 325
  27. Part V: Politics, the Courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Métis Identities since the 1960s
  28. 14. A Renewed Political Awareness, 1965–2000 363
  29. 15. Reformulated Identities, 1965–2013 380
  30. 16. The Métis of Ontario 419
  31. 17. Organizational Politics, Land Claims, and the Métis of the Northwest Territories 453
  32. 18. Ethnic Symbolism: Reinterpreting and Recreating the Past 490
  33. Conclusion 509
  34. Notes 517
  35. Bibliography 635
  36. Index 665
From New Peoples to New Nations
This chapter is in the book From New Peoples to New Nations
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442621497-018

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Figures and Tables vii
  4. Acknowledgments ix
  5. Abbreviations xi
  6. From New Peoples to New Nations. Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries 1
  7. Introduction 3
  8. Part I: Hybridity and Patterns of Ethnogenesis
  9. 1. Race and Nation: Changing Ethnological and Historical Constructions of Hybridity 13
  10. 2. Economic Ethnogenesis: The Fur Trade and Métissage in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 42
  11. Part II: The Genesis and Development of the Idea of the Métis Nation to the 1930s
  12. Introduction 67
  13. 3. Fur Trade Wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the Idea of the Métis Nation, 1811–1849 71
  14. 4. Louis Riel and the Religion of Métis Nationalism, 1869–1885 92
  15. 5. L’Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph, A.-H. de Trémaudan, and the Re-imagining of the Métis Nation, 1910 to the 1930s 113
  16. Part III: Government Policy and the Invention of Métis Status in the Nineteenth Century
  17. 6. The Manitoba Act and the Creation of a Métis Status 133
  18. 7. Extinguishing Rights and Inventing Categories: Métis Scrip as Policy and Self-Ascription 155
  19. 8. Indian Treaty versus Métis Scrip: The Permeability of Status Categories and Ethnicities 190
  20. 9. The United States / Canada Border and the Bifurcation of the Plains Métis, 1870–1900 217
  21. Part IV: Economic Marginalization and the Métis Political Response, 1896 to the 1960s
  22. Introduction 239
  23. 10. St Paul des Métis Colony, 1896–1909: Identity as Pathology 243
  24. 11. Political Mobilization in Alberta and the Métis Population Betterment Act of 1938 256
  25. 12. The Liberals, the CCF, and the Métis of Saskatchewan, 1935–1964 288
  26. 13. Social Science and the Métis, 1950–1970 325
  27. Part V: Politics, the Courts, and the Constitution: Reformulating Métis Identities since the 1960s
  28. 14. A Renewed Political Awareness, 1965–2000 363
  29. 15. Reformulated Identities, 1965–2013 380
  30. 16. The Métis of Ontario 419
  31. 17. Organizational Politics, Land Claims, and the Métis of the Northwest Territories 453
  32. 18. Ethnic Symbolism: Reinterpreting and Recreating the Past 490
  33. Conclusion 509
  34. Notes 517
  35. Bibliography 635
  36. Index 665
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