{"id":13296,"date":"2015-10-14T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=13296"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:46","slug":"animating-the-archive-prof-michel-hogues-metis-and-the-medicine-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2015\/animating-the-archive-prof-michel-hogues-metis-and-the-medicine-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Animating the Archive: Prof Michel Hogue’s “Metis and the Medicine Line”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Michel Hogue speaks so energetically about the personalities in his new book M\u00e9tis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), you\u2019d almost think he had met them in person. But as you might expect from an assistant professor in the History department, it turns out that these fascinating figures emerged from the archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take Antoine Ouellette, a favourite example. Born into a Manitoba hunting and trading family, Ouellette was one of three brothers who married three sisters. He appears near the end of Hogue\u2019s study, which explores the agency of the M\u00e9tis people between the 1800s and the early twentieth century (primarily centred in the 1880s) as they moved back and forth across the Canadian-American border….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast to some popular portrayals of the native person at the mercy of their governments, Hogue\u2019s narrative reveals how Ouellette and his contemporaries claimed a lot of agency in their situation. \u201cWhat this gentleman and a bunch of others in the 1880s did when the Canadian government started issuing scrip was travel across the border in Canada to claim it, all the while pursuing other avenues in the United States,\u201d says Hogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hogue adds that they were far from passive either. \u201cOne argument the book makes is that the M\u00e9tis people were obviously profoundly affected by the hardening of the border, but they also participated as key players,\u201d says Hogue.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the rest of  Suzanne Bowers’ interview with Professor Hogue <\/span>here.<\/a>  To know more about Professor Hogue, who teaches Canadian, American and Indigenous Histories at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ click here<\/a> or go to  michelhogue.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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