A snug little flock : the social origins of the Riel resistance of 1869-70
Record details
- ISBN: 0920486509 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 0920486487 (bound) :
- ISBN: 9780920486504 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780920486481 (bound) :
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Physical Description:
vii, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
print - Publisher: Winnipeg : Watson & Dwyer Publishing Ltd., c1991.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-267) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Red River setting -- A question of leadership -- The first years -- A little Britain in the wilderness -- Free trade and social fragmentation -- A strife of blood -- The Rev. G. O. Corbett and the uprising of the people -- The halfbreeds and the Riel protest -- The Metis and the Riel protest -- Conclusion. |
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Subject: | Métis -- Social conditions Métis -- Social conditions Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 971.051 PANN (Text) | 33294000698100 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Red River, in the 1830s, was a mix of Scottish farmers, Indians, traders, mixed-bloods of Scottish-Indian origin and Metis of French-Indian origin. The colony was a challenge to missionaries who set out to create an English rural parish at the forks of the Red and Assibiboine, believed and taught that indolence - the unchristian nomadic lifestyle of the buffalo hunt - must be replaced by the work of the Lord: agriculture. The traditional fur-trade marriage must be replaced by the Christian marriage which, they insisted, was 'the parent not the child of society'; the Christian marriage, however, could never correct the disastrous dilution of the Britannic race by Indian blood. In the 'strife of blood' that followed, Red River became a society in which white looked down on mixed-blood, Catholic suspected Protestant, Halfbreed distrusted Metis and clergy opposed the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company. The end result was the 'civil war' of 1869.