Revised and expanded to include new research, a discussion of new interpretive trends, and a review of new literature since the publication of the first edition in 1990, The Free People - Li Gens Libres is a comprehensive history of the Métis community and national historic site of Batoche, Saskatchewan. Author Diane Payment has a long personal association with Batoche; her study is the culmination of over twenty years of documentary and field research as a participant-observer within the community. Her inquiry draws on a range of dicatated and written historical sources, both Métis and non-Métis, as well as more recent oral history narratives and personal observations.This is one of the few studies on Métis communities in western and northern Canada. Payment's approach demonstrates that any understanding of Métis culture must be based not only on European or Euro-Canadian historical models but on its own values and traditions. She provides new insights into the armed resistance of 1885 and figures such as Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont, and Charles Nolin, as well as women such as Marguerite Caron and Christine Pilon. Payment argues that Batoche has persisted as a community despite conflict, crisis, and prejudice from immigrant ethnic groups and institutions such as the Canadian government and the Roman Catholic Church, succeeding in maintaining its uniquely Métis identity.--publisher's description.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-377) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.24/2
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Previously published under title: "The free people, Otipemisiwak", Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870-1930 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-sn
- ISBN
- 9781552382639 1552382397
- LCCN
- E99.M47
- LCCN Item number
- P393 2009eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOPAL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxvi, 406 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239169 (OCoLC)860778628 (CaOOCEL)424398
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Gens libres Free people, a history of the MeÌt̂is community of Batoche, Saskatchewan
- Transcribing agency
- CaOPAL
Table of Contents
- The Free People - 1
- Li Gens Libres 1
- Diane P. 1
- Payment 1
- The Free People - 4
- Li Gens Libres 4
- Diane P. 4
- Payment 4
- The Free People - 8
- Li Gens Libres 8
- Diane P. 8
- Payment 8
- Introduction 32
- Society and Culture 64
- The Métis and the 124
- Roman Catholic Church 124
- Political Activism 154
- Economy 194
- Land Claims on the South 234
- Saskatchewan River 234
- Hard Times and Coming of 280
- Age Batoche since the 1930s 280
- Appendices 332
- Notes 354
- Selected Bibliography 394
- Index 410
- The Free People - 439
- Li Gens Libres 439
- Diane P. 439
- Payment 439
