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.

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

• The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories, edited by Ute Lischke and David T. McNabPreface: The Years of Achievement Ute Lischke and David T. McNabIntroduction: We Are Still Here Ute Lischke and David T. McNabPart I: Reflections on Métis IdentitiesOut of the Bush: A Journey to a Dream Olive Patricia DickasonA Long Journey: Reflections on Spirit Memory and Métis Identities David T. McNabReflections on Métis Connections in the Life and Writings of Louise Erdrich Ute LischkeThe Winds of Change: Métis Rights after Powley, Taku and Haida Jean TeilletPart II: Historical Perspectives""I Shall Settle, Marry, and Trade Here"": British Military Personnel and Their Mixed-Blood Descendants Sandy CampbellEarly Forefathers to the Athabasca Métis: Long-Term North West Company Employees Nicole St. OngeManipulating Identity: The Sault Borderlands Métis and Colmiac Intervention Karl S. HeleNew Light on the Plains Métis: The Buffalo Hunters of Pembinah, 1870-71 Heather DevineThe Drummond Island Voyageurs and the Search for Great Lakes Métis Identity Karen J. TraversPart III: Métis Families and CommunitiesSearching for the Silver Fox: A fur-Trade Family History Virginia (Parker) Barter The Kokum Puzzle: Finding and Fitting the Pieces Donna G. Sutherland""Where the White Dove Flew Up"": 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