Main entry:

Payment, Diane.

Title & Author:

The free people = Li gens libres : a history of the Métis community of Batoche, Saskatchewan / Diane P. Payment.

Publication:

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, ©2009.

Description:

xxvi, 406 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Series:

Parks and heritage series, 1494-0426 ; 12

Notes:
"Previously published under the title: The free people, Otipemisiwak"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-377) and index.
Introduction -- Society and culture -- The Métis and the Roman Catholic Church -- Political activism -- Economy -- Land claims on the South Saskatchewan River -- Hard times and coming of age: Batoche since the 1930s -- Appendices.
Includes some text in French and Michif.

Summary:

"Revised and expanded to include new research, a discussion of new interpretive trends, and a review of new literature since the publication of the first edition in 1990, The Free People - Li Gens Libres is a comprehensive history of the Métis community and national historic site of Batoche, Saskatchewan. Author Diane Payment has a long personal association with Batoche; her study is the culmination of over twenty years of documentary and field research as a participant-observer within the community. Her inquiry draws on a range of dicatated and written historical sources, both Métis and non-Métis, as well as more recent oral history narratives and personal observations.
This is one of the few studies on Métis communities in western and northern Canada. Payment's approach demonstrates that any understanding of Métis culture must be based not only on European or Euro-Canadian historical models but on its own values and traditions. She provides new insights into the armed resistance of 1885 and figures such as Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont, and Charles Nolin, as well as women such as Marguerite Caron and Christine Pilon. Payment argues that Batoche has persisted as a community despite conflict, crisis, and prejudice from immigrant ethnic groups and institutions such as the Canadian government and the Roman Catholic Church, succeeding in maintaining its uniquely Métis identity."--Pub. desc.

ISBN:

9781552382394 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1552382397 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Métis History.
Indians of North America Saskatchewan History.
Métis Saskatchewan Batoche Region Social life and customs.
Métis Saskatchewan Batoche, Région de Histoire.
Métis Saskatchewan Batoche, Région de Mœurs et coutumes.
Métis Canada Relations avec l'État.
Nation Métis Terres Saskatchewan Batoche, Région de.
Premières Nations Saskatchewan Histoire.
Métis Canada Histoire.
Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Indians of North America
Métis
Batoche (Sask.) History.
Batoche, Région de (Sask.) Histoire.
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Batoche

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Payment, Diane. Free people, Otipemisiwak.
Parks and heritage series ; 12.

Gens libres

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order