Includes bibliographical references (p. [635]-664) and index.

Race and nation : changing ethnological and historical constructions of hybridity -- Economic ethnogenesis : the fur trade and Métissage in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Fur trade wars, the Battle of Seven Oaks, and the idea of the Métis nation, 1811-1849 -- Louis Riel and the religion of Métis nationalism, 1869-1885 -- L'union Nationale Métisse Saint-Joseph, A.-H. Trémaudan, and the re-imagining of the Métis nation, 1910 to the 1930s -- The Manitoba Act and the creation of Métis status -- Extinguishing rights and inventing categories : Métis scrip as policy and self-ascription -- Indian treaty versus Métis scrip : the permeability of status categories and ethnicities -- The United States/Canada border and the bifurcation of the plains Métis 1870-1900 -- St. Paul des Métis colony, 1896-1909 : identity as pathology -- Political mobilization in Alberta and the Métis Population Betterment Act of 1938 -- The Liberals, the CCF, and the Metis of Saskatchewan, 1935-1964 -- Social science and the Métis, 1950-1970 -- A renewed political awareness, 1965-2000 -- Reformulated identities, 1965-2013 -- The Métis of Ontario -- Organizational politics, land claims, and the Métis of the Northwest Territories -- Ethnic symbolism : reinterpreting and recreating the past.