Known as “Canada’s forgotten people,” the Métis have long been here, but until 1982 they lacked the legal status of Native people. At that point, however, the Métis were recognized in the constitution as one of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. A significant addition to Métis historiography, The Long Journey of a Forgotten People includes Métis voices and personal narratives that address the thorny and complicated issue of Métis identity from historical and contemporary perspectives. Topics include eastern Canadian Métis communities; British military personnel and their mixed-blood descendants; life as a Métis woman; and the Métis peoples ongoing struggle for recognition of their rights, including discussion of recent Supreme Court rulings.
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'The collection is beautifully presented and is thoughtfully organised into three distinct sections. Besides its literary and cultural value, it is a book to dip in and out of, and read at leisure. The writing is excellent and since the purchase price is very reasonable for a book of such quality, I can wholeheartedly recommend it.' -- Philippa Lewis, Uni of Birmingham British Journal Of Canadian Studies 2009
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Ute Lischke teaches German literature, film studies and cultural perspectives at Wilfrid Laurier University where she is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies. Lischke is the author of Lily Braun, 1865-1916 German Writer, Feminist, Socialist (2000). Her most recent books, edited with David T. McNab, include Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), and The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories, (2007) all with WLU Press.
David T. McNab is a Métis historian who has worked for three decades on Aboriginal land and treaty rights issues in Canada. McNab teaches in the School of Arts and Letters in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University in Toronto where he is Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies. He has also been a claims advisor for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig., Walpole Island Heritage Center, Bkejwanong First Nations since 1992. In addition to more than seventy articles, McNab has published Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory (editor) (1998) and Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario (1999) as well as the co-edited (with Ute Lischke) Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories, (2007) all with WLU Press.
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As a Métis individual myself, I was both impressed and a little depressed by this collection of individual stories relating the discovery of the personal values involved in the development of Métis identity. Having been through a parallel but quite different journey, the stories held few surprises for me, if only because I have heard hundreds of similar stories over the 30+ years I spent working in urban Métis organizations. I was impressed by the fact that most of the stories in the book were told from a perspective of deeply felt personal experience and, for the most part,successfully avoided the only too common rhetorical political ranting of many books coming out of Métis communities across Canada. I was somewhat depressed by the fact that several of the storytellers measured their success by how well they were able to function in, and how much they had achieved in terms of the "white" or non-Aborginal world. I guess I was hoping for more insight into how their respective experiences heightened or broadened their awareness of what it meant to be Métis from an indigenous and more "spiritual" point of view. Answers to the question "What does being Métis mean to the future of Canada?" might have been interesting. To the extent that this book can serve to encourage Métis individuals to seek out their heritage on a personal level, I rate it among the top ten of the hundreds of Métis oriented books and articles I have read. It is on that basis that I highly recommend it, not only to Métis individuals, but to both Indian and non-Aboriginal readers who are interested in a fuller undestanding of what being Métis is all about. -- Martin F. Dunn
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