Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Historiographical Context
Sylvia Van Kirk and the Feminist Project
Overview of the Chapters
Conclusion
Notes
Works by Sylvia Van Kirk
“All These Stories about Women”: “Many Tender Ties” and a New Fur Trade History by Jennifer S.H. Brown
Notes
Sylvia Van Kirk: A Feminist Appreciation of Front-line Work in the Academy by Franca Iacovetta
Notes
Daring to Write a History of Western Canadian Women’s Experiences: Assessing Sylvia VanKirk’s Feminist Scholarship by Valerie J. Korinek
Notes
Ties Across the Border by Elizabeth Jameson
Notes
Historiography that Breaks Your Heart: Van Kirk and the Writing of Feminist History by Adele Perry
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Notes
Beyond the Borders: The “Founding Families” of Southern New Zealand by Angela Wanhalla
Ngāi Tahu and the mixed-descent population
The meaning of marriage
A “new stock shall arise”
Conclusion
Notes
Multicultural Bands on the Northern Plains and the Notion of “Tribal” Histories by Robert Alexander Innes
Notes
Introduction
Building a Plural Society
Forces of Production
Relations of Production
Superstructure
Métis and Europeans and the Fur Trade Mode of Production
The Fur Trade Mode of Production: Resilient and Long-Lasting
Notes
Others or Brothers?: Competing Settler andAnishinabe Discourses About Race in Upper Canada by Robin Jarvis Brownlie
Settler Discourses about Race
Rhetorical Strategies of Whiteness
Indigenous Discourses about Race
Conclusion
Notes
Attitudes Toward “Miscegenation” in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, 1860–19141 by Victoria Freeman
Notes
Home Tales: Gender, Domesticity, and Colonialism in the Prairie West, 1870–1900 by Kathryn McPherson
Notes
“I am a proud Anishinaabekwe”: Issues of Identity and Status in Northern Ontario after Bill C-31 by Katrina Srigley
Bill C-31—Issues of Identity and Status
Notes
Contributors