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Hudson's Bay Company. --- Northwest, Canadian --- Manitoba --- Red River Settlement. --- Rupert's Land. --- History --- History
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Agriculture --- Agriculture --- Red River Settlement. --- Rouge, Etablissement de la rivière.
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Hudson's Bay Company. --- Northwest, Canadian --- Manitoba --- Red River Settlement. --- Rupert's Land. --- History
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North West Company --- Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.) --- Red River Settlement --- Pambrun --- Heurter
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"Most writing on Metis history has tended to concentrate on the Resistance of 1869-70 and the Rebellion of 1885, without adequately explaining the social and economic origins of the Metis that shaped those conflicts. Historians have often emphasized the aboriginal aspect of the Metis heritage, stereotyping the Metis as a primitive people unable or unwilling to adjust to civilized life and capitalist society." "In this social and economic history of the Metis of the Red River Settlement, specifically the parishes of St Francois Xavier and St Andrew's, Gerhard Ens argues that the Metis participated with growing confidence in two worlds: one Indian and pre-capitalist, the other European and capitalist. Ens maintains that Metis identity was not defined by biology or blood but rather by the economic and social niche they carved out for themselves within the fur trade." "Ens finds that the Metis, rather than being overwhelmed, adapted quickly to the changed economic conditions of the 1840s and actually influenced the nature of change. The opening of new markets and the rise of the buffalo-robe trade fed a 'cottage industry' whose increasing importance had significant repercussions for the maintenance of ethnic boundaries, the nature of Metis response to the Riel Resistance, and the eventual decline of the Red River Settlement as a Metis homeland."--Jacket
Métis --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Mixed descent --- Red River Settlement --- Etablissement de la rivière Rouge --- Red River Colony --- Selkirk's Red River Settlement --- Assiniboia (District) --- Michif
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What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott?The disposal of the body of Canadian history's most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted's new look at some of the most fascinating events and personalities of Manitoba's Red River Settlement.To outsiders, 19th-century Red River seemed like a remote community precariously poised on the edge of the frontier. Small and isolated though it may have been, Red River society was also lively, well educated, multicultural and often contentious. By looking at well-known figures from a new perspective, and by examining some of the more obscure corners of the settlement's history, Bumsted challenges many of the widely held assumptions about Red River. He looks, for instance, at the brief, unhappy Swiss settlement at Red River, examines the controversial reputation of politician John Christian Shultz, and delves into the sensational scandal of a prominent clergyman's trial.Vividly written, Thomas Scott's Body pieces together a new and often surprising picture of early Manitoba and its people.
Manitoba --- Red River Settlement. --- Etablissement de la rivière Rouge --- Red River Colony --- Selkirk's Red River Settlement --- Assiniboia (District) --- Province of Manitoba --- Province du Manitoba --- Rupert's Land --- History
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Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, -- Earl of, -- 1771-1820 --- Hudson's Bay Company --- North West Company --- Red River Settlement --- Ellice --- Wilcocke
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