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Defining Métis : Catholic Missionaries and the Idea of Civilization in Northwestern Saskatchewan, 1845-1898.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780887555114
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Defining MétisDDC classification:
  • 271/.76071241
LOC classification:
  • BV2300.O2 .F673 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: From sauvage to métis: The Evolution of Missionary-Made Categories at Île-à-la-Crosse -- Chapter 1: Saint-Jean-Baptiste in an Evolving Mission Network -- Chapter 2: Oblate Perceptions of the Hudson's Bay Company -- Chapter 3: Oblates and the Beginnings of Residential Education -- Chapter 4: Oblates and the Categorization of Indigeneity -- Conclusion: La civilisation moderne: The World Came Seeping In -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: The Evolution of a Catholic Mission Network: Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Its Outposts, 1852-72 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Defining Métis examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries'changing interests and agendas.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: From sauvage to métis: The Evolution of Missionary-Made Categories at Île-à-la-Crosse -- Chapter 1: Saint-Jean-Baptiste in an Evolving Mission Network -- Chapter 2: Oblate Perceptions of the Hudson's Bay Company -- Chapter 3: Oblates and the Beginnings of Residential Education -- Chapter 4: Oblates and the Categorization of Indigeneity -- Conclusion: La civilisation moderne: The World Came Seeping In -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: The Evolution of a Catholic Mission Network: Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Its Outposts, 1852-72 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Defining Métis examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries'changing interests and agendas.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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