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Cargando... The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nationpor Jean Teillet
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Teillet definitely has an axe to grind and grind she does in this book. She makes some very convincing arguments, too. The Metis have seen unfair dealings from Canadian governments in about every form you can imagine. I find myself wondering whether the progeny of Western interlopers are deserving of special treatment because they are part indigenous. I’m afraid I don’t know that they do. It’s a sticky question that I don’t think can ever be answered to the satisfaction of all. Still, an enlightening read. ( ) Ms. Teillet, a lawyer and an activist, mostly concerned with Matis-Canadian relations has written an informative book. The thrust can be defined as an explanation of the historical growth of that nebulous concept, "Aboriginal Title". This is a difficult concept to organize in any brief form, and Teillet has attempted to use a chronological approach. It succeeds pretty well given this context. It is not a book that will be liked by fans of; 1) Sir John A. MacDonald, 2) the Hudson's Bay company and its directors, 3)" fans of the current policies and operations of the Indian Affairs department, and 4) the Governments of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. But that's a hair shirt they will have to continue to wear, probably for a good long while. The prose is clear, and though the maps(A personal irritant, I admit) are relatively slipshod, they are not deliberately greatly misleading. The book is definitely worth the purchase price especially to those interested in Native policy in Canada. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada's Indigenous peoples--the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts. The Métis Nation didn't just drift slowly into the Canadian consciousness in the early 1800s; it burst onto the scene fully formed. The Métis were flamboyant, defiant, loud and definitely not noble savages. They were nomads with a very different way of being in the world--always on the move, very much in the moment, passionate and fierce. They were romantics and visionaries with big dreams. They battled continuously--for recognition, for their lands and for their rights and freedoms. In 1870 and 1885, led by the iconic Louis Riel, they fought back when Canada took their lands. These acts of resistance became defining moments in Canadian history, with implications that reverberate to this day: Western alienation, Indigenous rights and the French/English divide. After being defeated at the Battle of Batoche in 1885, the Métis lived in hiding for twenty years. But early in the twentieth century, they determined to hide no more and began a long, successful fight back into the Canadian consciousness. The Métis people are now recognized in Canada as a distinct Indigenous nation. Written by the great-grandniece of Louis Riel, this popular and engaging history of "forgotten people" tells the story up to the present era of national reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. 2019 marks the 175th anniversary of Louis Riel's birthday (October 22, 1844) No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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