Stories of the Road Allowance People Christmas In Distorted Descent: White Claims

In Distorted Descent: White Claims of Indigenous Identity

and applications of science in constructing the identities of Indigenous populations

especially Treaty One to Treaty Seven and their context

some of whom have ancestral connections to Indigenous communities and others descendent from settlers

Jim Miller is a professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan

Stories of the Road Allowance People Christmas In Distorted Descent: White ClaimsStories of the Road Allowance People is an important contribution to Mtis history and oral tradition from the acclaimed Mtis writer Maria Campbell. In this unique collection, Maria Campbell has translated eight stories from her elders and presents them in their true oral form. The humour and warmth of these stories are clearly heard in the dialect and rhythm of the storytellers of a past generation. Her respect for the elders and their Michif language