HIST 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ethnogenesis, Racialization, Robinson Treaty
14 Nov 2016
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Metis nationhood is formed at a particular time and place. Distinctiv lang, art, traditions, occupation/role in fur trade. Questions of belonging and new social formations. Absorbing settlers/getting access to material goods bcomes source of power. Plains area, just south of present day us/can border. Indg hunting/trade practices linking up w global econ. Post-conflict plains as a site of ethnogenesis and shatter belt. Sb of dispossession, population collapse, happen @ same time as creation of new identities. Metis identity known early on for buff hunting/trading lifestyle. N hiyawak, anishinaabeg, and assiniboine peoples as intermediaries. The plains and the new inter-ethnic landscape. The importance of indigenous women in kinship. Marriages as important kinship bonds--expand econ networks. Trader-indg woman families often had diff seasonal migration patterns, led to distinct community, different from both societies. Husbands often lived w/in indg community after marriage, but before children. Borderlands theory: interchange/overlap of ideas/information/lived experiences in relation to particular space.
