PreviewsCheryl Troupe

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  Métis Matriarchs

  Agents of Transition

  Cheryl Troupe (Editor), Doris Jeanne MacKinnon (Editor)

  This collection of case studies explores the lives of several Métis matriarchs – Marie Rose Delorme Smith, Victoria Belcourt Callihoo, Josette Lagacé Work, Caroline McNabb, Julia Lamotte, Nora Cummings, and more – who lived in what is now Western Canada, revealing how Métis women played critical roles in navigating changes brought about by settlement and government control in the 19th century and beyond.

  (University of Regina Press, $34.95 Paperback, 336 pages, ISBN: 978-17-79400-11-6)  

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  Putting Down Roots

  Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community

  Cheryl Troupe

  Using oral histories, archival sources, genealogies, photographs, and deep mapping, this innovative and engaging study reframes Métis road allowance communities as sites of resistance and resilience, revealing how the everyday actions of women’s work sustained Métis identity, family systems, and relationships to the land.

  (University of Manitoba Press, $27.95 Paperback, 408 pages, ISBN: 978-17-72841-02-2)