Long Journey of a Forgotten People

Ute Lischke teaches German literature, film studies and cultural perspectives at Wilfrid Laurier University where she is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies. Lischke is the author of Lily Braun, 1865-1916 German Writer, Feminist, Socialist (2000). Her most recent books, edited with David T. McNab, include Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), and The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories , (2007) all with WLU Press. David T. McNab is a Métis historian who has worked for three decades on Aboriginal land and treaty rights issues in Canada. McNab teaches in the School of Arts and Letters in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University in Toronto where he is Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies. He has also been a claims advisor for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig., Walpole Island Heritage Center, Bkejwanong First Nations since 1992. In addition to more than seventy articles, McNab has published Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory (editor) (1998) and Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario (1999) as well as the co-edited (with Ute Lischke) Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), and The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories , (2007) all with WLU Press.

• Table of Contents for The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories , edited by Ute Lischke and David T. McNab Preface: The Years of Achievement | Ute Lischke and David T. McNab Introduction: We Are Still Here | Ute Lischke and David T. McNab Part I: Reflections on Métis Identities Out of the Bush: A Journey to a Dream | Olive Patricia Dickason A Long Journey: Reflections on Spirit Memory and Métis Identities | David T. McNab Reflections on Métis Connections in the Life and Writings of Louise Erdrich | Ute Lischke The Winds of Change: Métis Rights after Powley, Taku and Haida | Jean Teillet Part II: Historical Perspectives âI Shall Settle, Marry, and Trade Hereâ: British Military Personnel and Their Mixed-Blood Descendants | Sandy Campbell Early Forefathers to the Athabasca Métis: Long-Term North West Company Employees | Nicole St. Onge Manipulating Identity: The Sault Borderlands Métis and Colmiac Intervention | Karl S. Hele New Light on the Plains Métis: The Buffalo Hunters of Pembinah, 1870â71 | Heather Devine The Drummond Island Voyageurs and the Search for Great Lakes Métis Identity | Karen J. Travers Part III: Métis Families and Communities Searching for the Silver Fox: A fur-Trade Family History | Virginia (Parker) Barter The Kokum Puzzle: Finding and Fitting the Pieces | Donna G. Sutherland âWhere the White Dove Flew Upâ: The Saguingue Métis Community and the Fur Trade at Southampton on Lake Huron | Patsy Lou Wilson McArthur My Story: Reflections on Growing Up in Lac la Biche | Jaime Koebel

The collection is beautifully presented and is thoughtfully organised into three distinct sections. Besides its literary and cultural value, it is a book to dip in and out of, and read at leisure. The writing is excellent and since the purchase price is very reasonable for a book of such quality, I can wholeheartedly recommend it. -- Philippa Lewis, Uni of Birmingham British Journal Of Canadian Studies 2009