CANS 315 Chapter 10/06: 10-06 Garneau, Contemporary Metis Art_ Prophetic Obligation and the Individual Talent
13 Dec 2015
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10/06 garneau, contemporary metis art: prophetic obligation and the individual talent. Cross addressing conveys many ambiguities of metis identity. Lines of identity in ing communities r v blurred. Can find metis identity only thru open discourse. Tho metis is a continuum, it has boundaries and is not so unclearly defined for some. Those who focus specifically on metis traditions. Those who focus on broader indg issues. Metis have collective indg-eur ancestry, distinct lang/oral hists/material culture, anti- monopoly culture, shared hist of govt resistance+cultural genocide. During the big silence/the forgotten years, metis people were denied distinct identity in btwn indg ppls and whites, as colonial mind could/would not accommodate them. During 1900"s, metis people got colonies in n. alberta--reserve-like areas, then broader. But, nowhere near enough, further activism is taking place, land claims have been filed. During this time, metis art movement really emerged, was v strong by 1990"s.
