History of the Métis

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture/Seminar) This lecture/seminar course examines the history of the Métis people from their origins in the fur trade era to the present. Key topics include the concepts of métissage and ethnogenesis, the buffalo hunt, resistance to colonialism, scrip, road allowance communities, the Sixties Scoop, and the Métis political revival of the late twentieth century. The seminars examine the important questions in Métis history, such as why a distinctive Métis identity developed among people of mixed Indigenous and European descent in some places but not others. Special emphasis is given to the work of Métis historians.