Putting Down Roots; Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women's Food Labour in a Qu'appelle Valley Road Allowance Community

Troupe, Cheryl; Campbell, Maria (Foreword)

ISBN 10: 1772841021 / ISBN 13: 9781772841022

Edité par University of Manitoba Press 978-177284-102-2, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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[978-177284-102-2] 2025. (Mass market paperback) As new. xviii, 389pp. 8vo. As new.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Putting Down Roots; Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women's Food Labour in a Qu'appelle Valley Road Allowance Community
• Éditeur: University of Manitoba Press 978-177284-102-2, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1772841021
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781772841022
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Canadiana

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Synopsis

Mapping Métis history and cultural heritage through women’s work

Centring kinship and the strength of women, Putting Down Roots reframes Métis road allowance communities as sites of profound resistance and resilience, restoring Métis life in places, times, and scholarship where it has been obscured by settler narratives. These communities were not peripheral spaces where Métis lived as squatters, but places where families culturally thrived by visiting each other, telling stories, sharing food, and providing mutual aid. With stories of Métis li vyeu (Elders) as its foundation, this innovative study reveals the agency embedded in the everyday actions of women’s work, which sustained Métis identity, family systems, and relationships to land.

Cheryl Troupe charts a century of Métis presence and persistence in the Qu’Appelle Valley, from the end of the buffalo hunt in the 1850s, through displacement following the northwest resistances, resettlement on fringe Crown lands, ongoing political activism and opposition to Canadian land-use practices, and finally the dissolution of the road allowance community along Katepwa Lake in the 1950s. Focusing on female kinship relationships and food production, Putting Down Roots illuminates the ways women created the stability necessary to adapt to the rapidly changing economic, social, and political conditions that defined this period of Canadian history.

Troupe’s sophisticated use of oral histories, archival sources, genealogies, photographs, and deep mapping links people and their stories to the spaces that are important to them. Adding a new dimension to the study of Métis history, Putting Down Roots brings to life the tremendous cultural strength that characterized Métis road allowance communities.

À propos des auteurs

Cheryl Troupe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. She has a PhD in History and an MA in Indigenous Studies. She is Métis from north-central Saskatchewan.

Maria Campbell is a distinguished Metis author, playwright, filmmaker, and Elder. Her works have been published in eight countries and translated into four languages. Her bestselling book, Halfbreed, continues to be taught in schools across Canada.