Title Defining Métis : Catholic missionaries and the idea of civilization in northwestern Saskatchewan, 1845-1898 / Timothy P. Foran

Published Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: From sauvage to métis: The Evolution of Missionary-Made Categories at Ã#x8E;le-à -la-Crosse; Chapter 1: Saint-Jean-Baptiste in an Evolving Mission Network; Chapter 2: Oblate Perceptions of the Hudsonâ#x80;#x99;s Bay Company; Chapter 3: Oblates and the Beginnings of Residential Education; Chapter 4: Oblates and the Categorization of Indigeneity; Conclusion: La civilisation moderne: The World Came Seeping In; Acknowledgements Appendix: The Evolution of a Catholic Mission Network: Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Its Outposts, 1852â#x80;#x93;72Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary ""Defining Métis" examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries' changing interests and agendas. "Defining Métis" sheds light on the earliest phases of Catholic missionary work among Indigenous peoples in western and northern Canada. It examines various interrelated aspects of this work, including the beginnings of residential schooling, transportation and communications, and relations between the Church, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the federal government. While focusing on the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and their central mission at Île-à-la-Crosse, this study illuminates broad processes that informed Catholic missionary perceptions and impelled their evolution over a fifty-three-year period. In particular, this study illuminates processes that shaped Oblate conceptions of sauvage and métis. It does this through a qualitative analysis of documents that were produced within the Oblates' institutional apparatus--official correspondence, mission journals, registers, and published reports. Foran challenges the orthodox notion that Oblate commentators simply discovered and described a singular, empirically existing, and readily identifiable Métis population. Rather, he contends that Oblates played an important role in the conceptual production of les métis."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Canada HISTORY / Native American Métis, Île-à-la-Crosse, Indigenous, Saskatchewan, Oblates, Catholic Church, Fur Trade, Hudson Bay Company, North West Company RELIGION / History Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Oblates of Mary Immaculate -- Missions -- Saskatchewan -- History -- 19th century SUBJECT Oblates of Mary Immaculate fast Subject Métis -- Missions -- Saskatchewan -- History -- 19th century RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations. Missions Religion SUBJECT Saskatchewan -- Religion -- 19th century Subject Saskatchewan Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780887555138 0887555136 9780887555114 088755511X 0887557740 9780887557743

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