Browsing Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences by Subject "Metis"

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Debating Metis Rights

Pannekoek, Frits (Literary Review of Canada, 1992-04)

Thomas Flanagan usually manages to place himself at the centre of controversy whenever he writes about the Metis. While his work may often appear to be motivated by ideology rather than the persuasiveness of historical ...
A Probe Into the Demographic Structure of Nineteenth Century Red River

Pannekoek, Frits (University of Alberta Press, 1976)

To the casual observer in 1830 Red River appeared a picturesque rural backwater dotted with church steeples and numerous windmills. The impression would not have been inaccurate. By 1830 the settlement had recovered from ...
A snug little flock : the social origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70

Pannekoek, Frits (Watson and Dwyer, 1991)

Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who are the mixedbloods of North America? Why do they ...