The Edmonton and District Stragglers: gendered strategies of treaty and scrip, 1876-1886
Metis women listed as Edmonton and District Stragglers made strategic familial and economic decisions during the treaty and scrip period of the nineteenth century. In so doing, they influenced the development and administration of the Canadian government's treaty and scrip policies. Department...
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ftunbcolumbiadc:oai:unbc.arcabc.ca:unbc_16702 2024-05-19T07:44:02+00:00 The Edmonton and District Stragglers: gendered strategies of treaty and scrip, 1876-1886 Niemi, Melanie Ann (Author) Binnema, Theodore (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) 2005 electronic Number of pages in document: 103 https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc:16702/datastream/PDF/download https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A16702 https://doi.org/10.24124/2005/bpgub431 English eng University of Northern British Columbia Copyright retained by the author. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- History Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- Ethnic identity Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- Government relations Métis women -- Government policy -- Canada Northwest Canadian -- History -- 1870-1905 FC109 .N54 2005 Text thesis 2005 ftunbcolumbiadc https://doi.org/10.24124/2005/bpgub431 2024-04-19T00:29:37Z Metis women listed as Edmonton and District Stragglers made strategic familial and economic decisions during the treaty and scrip period of the nineteenth century. In so doing, they influenced the development and administration of the Canadian government's treaty and scrip policies. Department of Indian Affairs Inspector Thomas Wadsworth created the straggler classification as an expedient solution to a bureaucratic problem - a way to pay people who, by not belonging to an Indian band, were behaving in a way policy makers had not anticipated. The deconstruction of ethnic and band categories reveals that aboriginal women used administrative categories, including 'straggler,' 'Indian,' and 'halfbreed,' in ways unexpected by government authorities. The ways women used these categories of rule had long-term implications. Their decisions influenced their descendants' ethnic identities. Furthermore, official policy was far different from practice. When individuals responded differently than expected, new administrative categories and policies were created to accommodate for the discrepancies between expected and actual responses. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1303004 Thesis Metis UNBC's Digital Institutional Repository (University of Northern British Columbia) |
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Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- History Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- Ethnic identity Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- Government relations Métis women -- Government policy -- Canada Northwest Canadian -- History -- 1870-1905 FC109 .N54 2005 |
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Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- History Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- Ethnic identity Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- Government relations Métis women -- Government policy -- Canada Northwest Canadian -- History -- 1870-1905 FC109 .N54 2005 The Edmonton and District Stragglers: gendered strategies of treaty and scrip, 1876-1886 |
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Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- History Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- Ethnic identity Métis women -- Alberta -- Edmonton Region -- Government relations Métis women -- Government policy -- Canada Northwest Canadian -- History -- 1870-1905 FC109 .N54 2005 |
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Metis women listed as Edmonton and District Stragglers made strategic familial and economic decisions during the treaty and scrip period of the nineteenth century. In so doing, they influenced the development and administration of the Canadian government's treaty and scrip policies. Department of Indian Affairs Inspector Thomas Wadsworth created the straggler classification as an expedient solution to a bureaucratic problem - a way to pay people who, by not belonging to an Indian band, were behaving in a way policy makers had not anticipated. The deconstruction of ethnic and band categories reveals that aboriginal women used administrative categories, including 'straggler,' 'Indian,' and 'halfbreed,' in ways unexpected by government authorities. The ways women used these categories of rule had long-term implications. Their decisions influenced their descendants' ethnic identities. Furthermore, official policy was far different from practice. When individuals responded differently than expected, new administrative categories and policies were created to accommodate for the discrepancies between expected and actual responses. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1303004 |
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Niemi, Melanie Ann (Author) Binnema, Theodore (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) |
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The Edmonton and District Stragglers: gendered strategies of treaty and scrip, 1876-1886 |
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The Edmonton and District Stragglers: gendered strategies of treaty and scrip, 1876-1886 |
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The Edmonton and District Stragglers: gendered strategies of treaty and scrip, 1876-1886 |
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The Edmonton and District Stragglers: gendered strategies of treaty and scrip, 1876-1886 |
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