Managing Outside: an Ethnographic Study of a Cree Tallyman of Eastern James Bay
Theses
Author/Creator
Gail Whiteman
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University at Kingston, 1999.
Historical note:
First printed in The Illustrated War News, 1885.Brief profile of Howard Adams, recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for education. The article discusses what drove his academic and political aspirations.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.28.
Argues that the Métis were not an impediment to Euro-Canadian development and that their fight to be recognized as a "New Nation" played a significant role in the creation of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Historical note:
Michel Dumais, prominent South Branch Metis. Dumais was one of the delegates sent to retrieve Riel from Montana in 1884 along with Gabriel Dumont and James Isbister. He was farm instructor at the One Arrow Cree Reserve until 1885. After fighting in the Resistance he fled to Montana alongside Gabriel Dumont.