Making Métis Places in British Columbia: The Edge of the Métis National Homeland
Traditional territories and the connection that peoples have sustained to these areas are integral to cultural resilience, but for Métis, as post-contact Indigenous peoples who, as a result of colonial expansion, have been historically displaced and relocated to British Columbia through several wave...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/193712 2023-08-27T04:09:26+02:00 Making Métis Places in British Columbia: The Edge of the Métis National Homeland Legault, Gabrielle 2021-05-05 application/pdf http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/193712 https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.vi209.193712 eng eng The University of British Columbia http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/193712/191111 10.14288/bcs.no209.193712.g191111 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/193712 doi:10.14288/bcs.vi209.193712 Copyright (c) 2021 BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly; No. 209: Spring 2021; 19-36 0005-2949 10.14288/bcs.vi209 demography land settlement Metis info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2021 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.vi209.19371210.14288/bcs.vi209 2023-08-06T17:39:05Z Traditional territories and the connection that peoples have sustained to these areas are integral to cultural resilience, but for Métis, as post-contact Indigenous peoples who, as a result of colonial expansion, have been historically displaced and relocated to British Columbia through several waves of mobility, relationships to place are complex. Complicating factors include disrupted relations to the Métis Nation’s historic homeland and the denial of a Métis historic existence in British Columbia, an area where First Nations have long-standing and overlapping claims to traditional territories. Conceiving of places and peoples as mutually constituted, this article examines contemporary Métis identity in British Columbia as informed by place, being the contextual basis upon which identity is formed and expressed. Simultaneously, the study demonstrates that Métis peoples are place-making in British Columbia, transposing kin, community relations, and cultural practices into new places. Though demonstrating the resilience of Métis culture, this transposition occurs in already Indigenous places and, problematically, at times with little accountability to the First Nations people on whose lands Métis peoples reside. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) |
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Traditional territories and the connection that peoples have sustained to these areas are integral to cultural resilience, but for Métis, as post-contact Indigenous peoples who, as a result of colonial expansion, have been historically displaced and relocated to British Columbia through several waves of mobility, relationships to place are complex. Complicating factors include disrupted relations to the Métis Nation’s historic homeland and the denial of a Métis historic existence in British Columbia, an area where First Nations have long-standing and overlapping claims to traditional territories. Conceiving of places and peoples as mutually constituted, this article examines contemporary Métis identity in British Columbia as informed by place, being the contextual basis upon which identity is formed and expressed. Simultaneously, the study demonstrates that Métis peoples are place-making in British Columbia, transposing kin, community relations, and cultural practices into new places. Though demonstrating the resilience of Métis culture, this transposition occurs in already Indigenous places and, problematically, at times with little accountability to the First Nations people on whose lands Métis peoples reside. |
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Making Métis Places in British Columbia: The Edge of the Métis National Homeland |
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Making Métis Places in British Columbia: The Edge of the Métis National Homeland |
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Making Métis Places in British Columbia: The Edge of the Métis National Homeland |
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Making Métis Places in British Columbia: The Edge of the Métis National Homeland |
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making métis places in british columbia: the edge of the métis national homeland |
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The University of British Columbia |
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2021 |
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http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/193712 https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.vi209.193712 |
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