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Berthelette, Scott.
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Métis -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
Fur trade -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
French Canadians -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
Canada -- Race relations -- History.
Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
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Berthelette, Scott.
Métis -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
Fur trade -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
French Canadians -- Hudson Bay Region -- History.
Canada -- Race relations -- History.
Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
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Heirs of an ambivalent empire : French-Indigenous relations and the rise of the Métis in the
Hudson
Bay
watershed / Scott Berthelette.
by
Berthelette, Scott.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
Call #:
971.018 B539h
Subjects
Métis
--
Hudson
Bay
Region
--
History
.
Fur
trade
--
Hudson
Bay
Region
--
History
.
French Canadians
--
Hudson
Bay
Region
--
History
.
Canada
--
Race relations
--
History
.
Canada
--
Ethnic relations
--
History
.
Canada
--
History
--
To 1763 (New France)
Series
McGill-Queen's studies in early Canada ; 4.
ISBN:
9780228010593 (pbk)
9780228010586 (hc)
Description:
xviii, 353 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The
fur
trade
was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the
Hudson
Bay
watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone. Though the Canadiens worked for French colonial authorities, they were not unwavering agents of imperial power. Increasingly they found themselves between two worlds as they built relationships with Indigenous communities, sometimes joining them through adoption or marriage, raising families of their own. The result was an ambivalent empire that grew in fits and starts. It was guided by imperfect information, built upon a contested Indigenous borderland, fragmented by local interests, and periodically neglected by government administrators. Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire explores the lives of the Canadiens who used family and kinship ties to navigate between sovereign Indigenous nations and the French colonial government from the early 1660s to the 1780s. Acting as cultural intermediaries, the Canadiens made it possible for France to extend its presence into northwest North America. Over time, however, their ambivalent relationships with the French colonial state splintered imperial authority, leading to an outcome that few could have foreseen
--
the emergence of a new Indigenous culture, language, people, and nation: the Métis."--Publisher.
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