THE METIS CENTENNIAL

Thackeray, Bill (editor)

Published by Wild Coyote Publications, No place listed, 1979

4to. vi[1]2-55 plus 26 p. of appendices as follows: Appendix A: "Chippewa Were Resourceful, Creative" by Linda LaFountain; Appendix B: "FacsimileLetter from Gabriel Dumont as sent to Two Sons Solois; Appendix C: "Treaty with the Chippewa--Red Lake and Pembina Bands, 1863, 1864, 1892"; Appendix D: " A Metix Morning-Song (Chant) to the Brevity of Life, the Brevity of the Pre-Dawn Sky: The Brevityk of Time-Remaining"; Apopendix E: "A'ani Vision-Quest Muyth (adopted by Montana Metis). Illustrated with 13 black and white captioned photos, one black and white map, and one black and white drawing. Laid in are four items: Modoc War Tour Map--Chronology and Sites [four page folding brochure with a color map]; .illustrated broadside entitled "The Tepee: A Portable Home for the Plains Hunters"; illustrated broadside entitled "Visual Chart of the Uses Made of the Buffalo"; and a black and white map entitled "Jack's Hangers" in Lewistown, Fergus County, Montana. Brown photo pictorial wrappers with a color photo on the front cover by Linda Rawn of a Metis Cart in the Bear Paw Mountains and a drawing on the rear cover of a cart being pulled by a horse. Wrappers clean and bright, corners square and flat, all photos in fine condition, else fine with no internal markings. Dr. Bill Thackeray was Senior Professor, Montana State University, Northern. This publication includes the proceedings of the Metis Centennial Celebration in Lewiston, Montana, August 31 thru September 3, 1979. Sponsored by the Metis Centennial Celebration committee, Lewiston Montana. This second edition was sponsored by a private individual with "the continuing hope that the Metis community of Montana, which has been well integrated into the general population of this state, would once again gain its rightful position as an important segment of our history and current culture." [from the introduction to the second edition] The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands includes Canada's three Prairie Provinces, as well as parts of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Northwest Ontario and the Northern United States. They have a shared history and culture, deriving from specific mixed European (primarily French, Scottish, and English) and Indigenous ancestry, which became distinct through ethnogenesis by the mid-18th century, during the early years of the North American fur trade. Small communities who self-identify as Métis exist in Canada and the United States, such as the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana, apparently the group profiled in this work. FF if I have faith of the cutoff FF. Seller Inventory # 009493

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE METIS CENTENNIAL
Publisher: Wild Coyote Publications, No place listed
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition