Rooster Town - The History of an Urban Metis Community, 1901-1961 (Paperback)

Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Couleeese were some of the names given to Metis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression anation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network. At the city's edge, Rooster Town grew without city services as rural Metis arrived to participate in the urban economy and build their own houses while keeping Metis culture and community as a central part of their lives. In other growing settler cities, the Indigenous experience was largely characterized by removal and confinement. But the continuing presence of Metis living and working in the city, and the establishment of Rooster Town itself, made the Winnipeg experience unique. Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unoally in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

General

Imprint:	University of Manitoba Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	October 2018
Authors:	Evelyn J Peters • Matthew Stock • Adrian Werner
As told to:	Lawrie Barkwell
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-88755-825-2
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-88755-825-9
Barcode:	9780887558252

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