Metis Families is a Genealogical Compendium of the Fur Trade and Red River Settlement (Manitoba) families who also settled in Saskatchewan, Alberta, North Dakota, Montana and the Pacific Northwest. Included in Volume 1 in a series of 11 books: Linear Ancestors and Descendants of Jacques Ambroise Allard, Octave Allard, Michel Allary, Joseph Arcand, Joseph Azure, Joseph Barnabe, Andre Millet dit Beauchemin, Joseph Beauchene, Joseph Beaupre, Louis Belanger, Joseph Belcourt, Alexis Belgarde, Michel Monet dit Belhumeur, Olivier Bellerose, Joseph Benoit, Pierre Berard dit Lepine, Alexis Bercier, Jacques Berger, Joseph Beriault, Toussaint Savoyard dit Berthelet. Descendants of Jean Baptiste Adam, George Adams, Eustache Adhemar, James Aiken, Francois Amyotte, Joseph Amyotte, James Anderson, William Anderson, James Asham, George Atkinson, Antoine Auger, Antoine Azure, Alexander Baillie, George Baker, John Ballenden or Ballendine, John Ballendine (Halfbreed), John "A" Ballendine (Halfbreed), John Balsillie, Andrew Graham Ballenen Bannatyne, Charles Ademar dit Barron, William Henry Bartlett, John Beads, David Beauchamp, Jean Baptiste Beauchamp, Gabriel Beauchman, Basile Beaudoin dit Labonne, Joseph Beaudry, Baptiste Beaulieu, Francois Beaulieu, John Beaulieu, Joseph Beaupre, Charles Beauregard, Charles Berg, Pierre Belanger, Sandy Bell, Jean Baptiste Berland, Francois Savoyard dit Berthelet, James Curtis Bird.

Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Métis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies. Using a methodology rooted in an Indigenous world view, Fiola interviews eighteen people with Métis ancestry, or an historic familial connection to the Red River Métis, who participate in Anishinaabe ceremonies, sharing stories about family history, self-identification, and their relationships with Aboriginal and Eurocanadian cultures and spiritualities.

The word métis was originally used to identify children of French Canadian and Indian parents. It is now widely used to describe any of the descendants of Indian and non-Indian parents.

In recent years there has been growing interest in identifying the social and cultural attributes that define the Metis as a distinct people. In this groundbreaking study, Brenda Macdougall employs the concept of wahkootowin � the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values interconnectedness � to trace the emergence of a Metis community in northern Saskatchewan. Wahkootowin describes how relationships worked and helps to explain how the Metis negotiated with local economic and religious institutions while nurturing a society that emphasized family obligation and responsibility. This innovative exploration of the birth of Metis identity offers a model for future research and discussion.

Covers the Métis in Canada and the United States. Many lived in Manitoba. Also includes the provinces and states of Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, California, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin.

They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the Métis people have flourished as a distinct ethnic group in Canada and the northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. Yet their Métis identity is often ignored or misunderstood in the United States. Unlike their counterparts in Canada, the U.S. Métis have never received federal recognition. In fact, their very identity has been questioned. In this rich examination of a Métis community—the first book-length work to focus on the Montana Métis—Martha Harroun Foster combines social, political, and economic analysis to show how its people have adapted to changing conditions while retaining a strong sense of their own unique culture and traditions. Despite overwhelming obstacles, the Métis have used the bonds of kinship and common history to strengthen and build their community. As Foster carefully traces the lineage of Métis families from the Spring Creek area, she shows how the people retained their sense of communal identity. She traces the common threads linking diverse Métis communities throughout Montana and lends insight into the nature of Métis identity in general. And in raising basic questions about the nature of ethnicity, this pathbreaking work speaks to the difficulties of ethnic identification encountered by all peoples of mixed descent.

Contains 100 page introduction outlining the development of the Red River Metis and their dispersal in what is now Saskatchewan, Alberta and the NWT. Also contains 300 pages of tabular material related to marriage units, employment records, personal and real property in 1835 and 1870, as well as geographical location of Red River residences of whatever ancestry.

Metis Families is a Genealogical Compendium of the Fur Trade and Red River Settlement (Manitoba) families who also settled in Saskatchewan, Alberta, North Dakota, Montana and the Pacific Northwest. Included in Volume 9 of 11 in a series of books: Linear Ancestors and Descendants of Michel Amable Norman dit Jolicoeur, Joseph Page, Pierre Chrysologue Pambrun, Pierre 'Bostonais' Pangman, Bonaventure Parisien dit Leger, Michel Patenaude, Francois Paul, Paul Paul, Antoine Pelletier, Antoine Pepin, Narcisse Pepin, Pierre Pepin, Jean-Baptiste Perreault, Thomas Petit, Joseph Piche, Antoine Pilon, Basile Plante, Andre Poitras, John Pritchard, Michel Proulx. Descendants of William Norn, Oman Norquay, John Norris, Daniel Noyes, James Omand, Joseph Ouellette, Henri Paquette, Jean Baptiste Paquin, Joseph Paquin, Joseph Parenteau, John Park, Louis Patenaude dit Assiniboine, Michel Patenaude (b. 1773), Joseph Paul, James Peebles, Francois Perreault dit Morin (b. c1785); Francois Perreault dit Morin, Petit-Couteau, Jean Baptiste Plouffe dit Gervais, John Plummer, Victor "Attikamek" Poissonblanc, Charles Pratt, Joseph Primbeau, John Peter Pruden, John Baptiste (Indian) Quinn, Francois Etienne Quintal.