Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community
by Cheryl Troupe
University of Manitoba Press, 2025
Cloth: 978-1-77284-103-9 | Paper: 978-1-77284-102-2 | eISBN: 978-1-77284-105-3 (epub) | eISBN: 978-1-77284-104-6 (PDF)
TOC
Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. "Down There in the Valley": Introducing Bob and Margaret
Chapter 2. Daughters of the Country: Women's Labour in the Métis World
Chapter 3. Petitioning for Rights and Taking Up Agriculture
Chapter 4. Asserting Sovereignty to Secure Land
Chapter 5. Securing Land Tenure: North-West Half-Breed Scrip and Homesteading
Chapter 6. "We Got Our House Built by Seneca Roots": Life on the Road Allowance
Chapter 7: Going Hunting Rabbits: Women's Labour in Feeding the Family
Chapter 8. Contesting Government Intervention into Harvesting Spaces
Chapter 9. "This is a Michif Road": Métis Labour and Relief
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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