"Les gens de cette place": Oblates and the Evolving Concept of Métis at Île-à-Crosse, 1845-1898
This dissertation examines the construction and evolution of categories of indigeneity within the context of the Oblate (Roman Catholic) apostolate at Île-à-Crosse in present-day north-western Saskatchewan between 1845 and 1898. While focusing on one central mission station, this study illuminates b...
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ftdatacite:10.20381/ruor-4535 2023-05-15T17:12:19+02:00 "Les gens de cette place": Oblates and the Evolving Concept of Métis at Île-à-Crosse, 1845-1898 Foran, Timothy P. 2011 https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4535 http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/19914 en eng Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa Oblates of Mary Immaculate Catholic missions Western Canada Northern Saskatchewan Metis Categories of indigeneity Text Thesis article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2011 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4535 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z This dissertation examines the construction and evolution of categories of indigeneity within the context of the Oblate (Roman Catholic) apostolate at Île-à-Crosse in present-day north-western Saskatchewan between 1845 and 1898. While focusing on one central mission station, this study illuminates broad historical processes that informed Oblate perceptions and impelled their evolution over a fifty-three-year period. In particular, this study illuminates processes that shaped Oblate concepts of sauvage and métis. It does this through a qualitative analysis of missionary correspondence, mission records and published reports. In the process, this dissertation challenges the orthodox notion that Oblate commentators simply discovered and described a singular, empirically existing and readily identifiable Métis population. Rather, this dissertation contends that Oblates played an important role in the conceptual production of les métis. Thesis Metis DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Canada |
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This dissertation examines the construction and evolution of categories of indigeneity within the context of the Oblate (Roman Catholic) apostolate at Île-à-Crosse in present-day north-western Saskatchewan between 1845 and 1898. While focusing on one central mission station, this study illuminates broad historical processes that informed Oblate perceptions and impelled their evolution over a fifty-three-year period. In particular, this study illuminates processes that shaped Oblate concepts of sauvage and métis. It does this through a qualitative analysis of missionary correspondence, mission records and published reports. In the process, this dissertation challenges the orthodox notion that Oblate commentators simply discovered and described a singular, empirically existing and readily identifiable Métis population. Rather, this dissertation contends that Oblates played an important role in the conceptual production of les métis. |
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"Les gens de cette place": Oblates and the Evolving Concept of Métis at Île-à-Crosse, 1845-1898 |
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"Les gens de cette place": Oblates and the Evolving Concept of Métis at Île-à-Crosse, 1845-1898 |
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"Les gens de cette place": Oblates and the Evolving Concept of Métis at Île-à-Crosse, 1845-1898 |
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"Les gens de cette place": Oblates and the Evolving Concept of Métis at Île-à-Crosse, 1845-1898 |
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"Les gens de cette place": Oblates and the Evolving Concept of Métis at Île-à-Crosse, 1845-1898 |
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"les gens de cette place": oblates and the evolving concept of métis at île-à-crosse, 1845-1898 |
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