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Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific
Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific
Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific
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Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific

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Before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across the continent. They founded settlements that would become great cities such as Detroit, Saint Louis, and New Orleans, but their history has been largely buried or relegated to local lore or confined to Quebec. In this seminal work, Foxcurran, Bouchard, and Malette scrutinize primary sources and uncover the alliances between early French settlers and voyagers and the indigenous nations.
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Release dateSep 29, 2016
ISBN9781771860925
Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific
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Michel Bouchard

Michel Bouchard is Chair and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, where he lives. Born and raised in a French-speaking community in Northern Alberta in the shadow of the historical fur economy, he has researched ethnicity and nationalism, particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia. His current concentration is the history of French-speaking populations in Western North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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    This book examines the role of "les Canadiens" -- French immigrants to the new world -- and Metis people in settling North America, especially the American Northwest. Co-written by one American and two Canadian academics, it shows how French and Metis people played a large role in opening up the western part of North America, and how their role and contributions have been largely written out of history -- even more so in the U.S. than in Canada. Extensively researched and I learned a lot.Two things. First, this is an academic work. Written by someone like Walter Isaacson or Charlotte Gray, it would have been well researched but written in a more "story line' style. I'm very glad to have learned everything I did from this book, and it was never a slog to read, but it was a bit dry for those more used to popular biographies and/or histories. Second, the relationship between les Canadiens and the First Nations was different from the relationship between first people and the British. The French not only married Indian women regularly...and not temporarily...but seemed comfortable living in both cultures. Children spoke their aboriginal language and French. They often moved between their mother's home village and Nouvelle France (i.e., Montreal) with relative ease. It made me wonder what Canada would have been like had France retained the "territory" rather than the British.

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