Western Canada (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edwin S. Hall, Jr..

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily L. Haines.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the early nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, the settlement that would become the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, was composed primarily of an historical era Indigenous people called the Métis. Despite their history and enduring presence in Edmonton, the Métis are positioned as peripheral in narratives of Edmonton’s development from historical and archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kisha Supernant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Métis are a post-contact Indigenous people who emerged from early encouters between Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous fur traders in what would become the Canadian west. The imagining of the Canadian West by historians and archaeologists, however, has perpetuated myths around early...