Putting down roots : Métis agency, land use, and women's food labour in a Qu'Appelle Valley road allowance community / Cheryl Troupe.

Author/creator Troupe, Cheryl, 1972- author
Format Book
PublicationWinnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2025.
Descriptionpages cm
Subjects
Métis women--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --Social conditions. --19th century.
Métis women--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --Social conditions. --20th century.
Métis women--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --Economic conditions. --19th century.
Métis women--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --Economic conditions. --20th century.
Women in agriculture--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --History. --19th century.
Women in agriculture--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --History. --20th century.
Land use--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --History. --19th century.
Land use--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --History. --20th century.
Métis--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --Politics and government. --19th century.
Métis--Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.). --Politics and government. --20th century.

Seriespaskwāwi masinahikewina/Prairie writing ;
paskwāwi masinahikewina/Prairie writing ; 2. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents "Down There in the Valley": Introductin Bob and Margaret -- Daughters of the Country: Women's Labour in the Métis World -- Petitioning for Rights and Taking up Agriculture -- Asserting Sovereignty to Secure Land -- Securing Land Tenure: North-West Half-Breed Scrip and Homesteading -- "We Got our House Built by Seneca Roots": Life of the Road Allowance -- Going Hunting Rabbits: Women's Labour in Feeding the Family -- Contesting Government Intervention into Harvesting Spaces -- "This Is a Michif Road": Métis Labour and Relief.
Abstract "Centring kinship and the strength of women, Putting Down Roots reframes Métis road allowance communities as sites of profound resistance and resilience, restoring Métis life in places, times, and scholarship where it has been obscured by settler narratives. These communities were not peripheral spaces where Métis lived as squatters, but places where families culturally thrived by visiting each other, telling stories, sharing food, and providing mutual aid. With stories of Métis li vyeu (Elders) as its foundation, this innovative study reveals the agency embedded in the everyday actions of women’s work, which sustained Métis identity, family systems, and relationships to land. Cheryl Troupe charts a century of Métis presence and persistence in the Qu’Appelle Valley, from the end of the buffalo hunt in the 1850s, through displacement following the northwest resistances, resettlement on fringe Crown lands, ongoing political activism and opposition to Canadian land-use practices, and finally the dissolution of the road allowance community along Katepwa Lake in the 1950s. Focusing on female kinship relationships and food production, Putting Down Roots illuminates the ways women created the stability necessary to adapt to the rapidly changing economic, social, and political conditions that defined this period of Canadian history. Troupe’s sophisticated use of oral histories, archival sources, genealogies, photographs, and deep mapping links people and their stories to the spaces that are important to them. Adding a new dimension to the study of Métis history, Putting Down Roots brings to life the tremendous cultural strength that characterized Métis road allowance communities."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Other formsIssued also in electronic formats.
Issued in other formOnline version: Troupe, Cheryl, 1972- Putting down roots. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2025 1772841048 9781772841046
ISBN9781772841022
ISBN1772841021 (softcover)
ISBN9781772841039 (hardcover)
ISBN177284103X (hardcover)

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