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People From Everywhere: Metis Identity, Kinship And Mobility 1600s-1800s, Mark Edward Langenfeld
People From Everywhere: Metis Identity, Kinship And Mobility 1600s-1800s, Mark Edward Langenfeld
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PEOPLE FROM EVERYWHERE: METIS IDENTITY, KINSHIP AND MOBILITY, 1600s-1800s
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Mark Langenfeld
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2021Under the Supervision of Professor Margaret Noodin
People from Everywhere: Metis Identity, Kinship and Mobility, 1600s-1800s, is a discussion of how the Metis people of the American southern Great Lakes region in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin made individual and familial choices about ethnic identification from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries that enabled them to survive colonization in their homeland. I argue that Metis people maintained, through kinship networks, a private identity as a collective, distinct group of …