The New Peoples is the first major work to explore in a North
American context the dimensions and meanings of a process
fundamental to the European invasion and colonization of the
western hemisphere: the intermingling of European and Native
American peoples. This book is not about racial mixture, however,
but rather about ethnogenesis -- about how new peoples, new
ethnicities, and new nationalities come into being.
The contributors to this volume (with the exception of the late
Verne Dusenberry) were participants at the first international
Conference on the Metis in North America, hosted by the Newberry
Library in Chicago. The purpose of that conference, and the
collection that has grown out of it, has been to examine from a
regionally comparative and multi-disciplinary vantage point several
questions that lie at the heart of metis studies: What are the
origins of the metis people? What economic, political, and/or
cultural forces prompted the metis to coalesce as a self-conscious
ethnic or national group? Why have some individuals and populations
of mixed Indian and white ancestry identified themselves as white
or Indian rather than as metis? What are the cultural expressions
of metis identity? What does it mean to be metis today?
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