The New Peoples is the first major work to explore in a North American context the dimensions and meanings of a process fundamental to the European invasion and colonization of the western hemisphere: the intermingling of European and Native American peoples. This book is not about racial mixture, however, but rather about ethnogenesis -- about how new peoples, new ethnicities, and new nationalities come into being.The contributors to this volume (with the exception of the late Verne Dusenberry) were participants at the first international Conference on the Metis in North America, hosted by the Newberry Library in Chicago. The purpose of that conference, and the collection that has grown out of it, has been to examine from a regionally comparative and multi-disciplinary vantage point several questions that lie at the heart of metis studies: What are the origins of the metis people? What economic, political, and/or cultural forces prompted the metis to coalesce as a self-conscious ethnic or national group? Why have some individuals and populations of mixed Indian and white ancestry identified themselves as white or Indian rather than as metis? What are the cultural expressions of metis identity? What does it mean to be metis today?

The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America

History

Jacqueline; Brown, Jennifer S.H. Peterson

Americas

University of Manitoba Press

The story of artists in Western Canada, and how they changed the face of Canadian art "Listen to the visual voices of artists. They tell us so poignantly who we are, what we must cherish, and what we must address as a society."&nbsp; Patricia Bovey <hr /> Throughout her remarkable career as a gallery director, curator, and author, Patricia Bovey has tirelessly championed the work of Western Canadian artists. Western Voices in Canadian Art brings this lifelong passion to a crescendo, delivering the most ambitious survey of Western Canadian Art to date. Beginning with the earliest European-trained artists in Western Canada, and moving up to present day, Bovey amplifies the depth, scope, and importance of the diverse artists (both settler and Indigenous) whose distinct voices have contributed to the Western Canadian artistic tradition. Bovey then adopts a thematic approach, richly informed by her knowledge and experience, connecting art and artists through time and across provincial boundaries. Insights from Bovey's studio visits and conversations with artists enhance our understandings of the history and trajectory of, and impetus for Canadian artistic creation. Lavishly illustrated with over 250 works reproduced in full colour, Western Voices in Canadian Art is a book that needs to be seen, and its artists and art celebrated.&nbsp;

Western Voices in Canadian Art

Arts & Photography

Bovey LLD FRSA FCMA, Patricia

History & Criticism

Biology of coregonid fishes,

Casimir Charles

Woods Lindsey

Right-Wing Authoritarianism

First published in 1981, this still-timely volume surveys the history of social psychological research on right-wing authoritarianism and describes a more fruitful direction for future work. It concludes with a disturbing comment on the pervasiveness of authoritarian behaviour in our society.

Altemeyer, Bob

pp. xii, (3), 226, b/w illustrations, sketch maps, "This work should be greeted enthusiastically by anyone interested in native American religion and mythology. While Nelson's journal alone is a valuable eyewitness account that provides insights into religious and mystic aspects of Cree and Northern Ojibwa life it is its combination with the other three parts…

The Orders of the Dreamed: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ogibwa Religion and Myth, 1823

Jennifer S.H.

Brightman, Robert Brown

The Plains Cree: Trade, diplomacy, and war, 1790 to 1870 (Manitoba studies in native history)

Milloy, J.S.

These are a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield's linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published for the first time. In Ojibwe, with English translations by Bloomfield. Ojibwe-English glossary and other linguistic study aids.

The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts told by Angeline Williams (Algonquian Text Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

NICHOLS, JOHN.

Williams, Angeline

Social Sciences

Aboriginal rights are the subject of significant public concern in Canada. In this collection of 18 articles, the contributors focus on Aboriginal rights to the use of resources. They examine the nature and extent of resource use by Aboriginal peoples before contact with Europeans, and the persistence of indigenous economic systems during periods of intense interaction with Europeans. The fur trade changed some of the economic activity of Aboriginal peoples, but other patterns have survived.The effect of Canadian government policy and the legal system on these indigenous economies is a major theme of the book. The St. Catherine's Milling and Lumber case is examined in detail because of its effect on subsequent legal findings on the concept of Aboriginal land title. More recent cases, such as those affecting Native water rights in British Columbia and the Git'ksan-Wet'suet'en claim, are also discussed. The problem of interpreting historical and legal evidence is examined in detail.As Canada's Aboriginal peoples move towards self-determination, the nature of Aboriginal rights has become a subject of major importance to all Canadians. This volume, drawing on the perspectives of history, law, political science, ethnohistory, archaeology and cultural geography, will help us to understand some of the most important issues facing Canadians in the 1990s.

Aboriginal Resource Use in Canada: Historical and Legal Aspects (Manitoba Studies in Native History)

Reference

The laws of Mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.

Laws of Early Iceland: Gragas II (U of M Icelandic Series, 4) (Volume 2)

Europe

This is the first major body of annotated texts in James Bay Cree, and a unique documentation of Swampy and Moose Cree (Western James Bay) usage of the 1950s and 1960s. Conversations and interviews with sixteen different speakers include: legends, reminiscences, historical narratives, stories and conversations, as well as descriptions of technology. The book includes a detailed pronunciation guide, notes on Cree terms, informants' comments, dialect variations, and descriptions of cultural values and customs. The introduction describes and compares the various genres in traditional and popular culture. Written in Cree and English, with full glosssary.

Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay (Publications of the Algonquian Text Soci)

Scott, Simeon

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