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| Genre/Form: | Biography Généalogies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Devine, Heather. People who own themselves. Calgary, Alta. : University of Calgary Press ; Lancaster : Gazelle, c2004 (OCoLC)645692042 |
| Named Person: | Desjarlais (Famille) |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Heather Devine |
| ISBN: | 1552381153 9781552381151 |
| OCLC Number: | 53161734 |
| Description: | xx, 338 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Approaching the stories of the Desjarlais family: methods and goals -- The social contexts of Europe and new France -- From the St. Lawrence to St. Louis: the Desjarlais migration to the Mississippi and beyond -- The emergence of freemen in Rupert's land -- Migration and retrenchment: 1821-1869 -- Treaties and rebellion -- Some difficult choices: the Desjarlais after 1885 -- The people who own themselves. |
| Responsibility: | Heather Devine. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"The People Who Own Themselves reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais family history across a substantial area of North America, from seventeenth-century New France and the eighteenth-century French settlements along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, to nineteenth-century Rupert's Land in Western Canada." "Featuring a unique how-to appendix for Metis genealogical reconstruction, this book will be of equal interest to individuals wanting to investigate their own Native family roots and to scholars researching the formation of indigenous communities and identities."--BOOK JACKET.
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