Exile
This chapter examines how, in the aftermath of the dissolution of borderland communities, American and Canadian officials continued to grapple with the consequences of earlier borderland arrangements and to realign or reclassify Metis individuals within state-sponsored categories of nation and race....
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| Language: | English |
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University of North Carolina Press
2015
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469621050.003.0005 |
| Summary: | This chapter examines how, in the aftermath of the dissolution of borderland communities, American and Canadian officials continued to grapple with the consequences of earlier borderland arrangements and to realign or reclassify Metis individuals within state-sponsored categories of nation and race. It considers the experiences of different Metis families before two different bodies: the tribal enrollment commission at Fort Belknap and the North-West Half-Breed Scrip Commissions in Canada. In considering Metis claims to land or resources, these commissions engaged in a multivocal conversation about who belonged and who would share in local and national resources. And their results were critical in fixing the twentieth-century legal identities of their participants. Although these deliberations exposed the ongoing power of local groups to shape colonial categories, it also illustrates the determination of state officials to apply colonial categories and the logic of dispossession embedded in colonial practices. |
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