From the White Horse Plain to the shores of Lake Manitoba: migration stories of my maternal Metis family the Brelands, Naults/Neaults, Thiberts, and Zaces/Zastres.

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dc.contributor.authorKines, Mona
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteePerry, Adele (History)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeHancock, Robert (Indigenous Studies)
dc.contributor.supervisorParent, David
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-10T21:12:41Z
dc.date.available2024-09-10T21:12:41Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-27
dc.date.submitted2024-08-27T16:26:54Zen_US
dc.date.submitted2024-08-27T17:03:49Zen_US
dc.date.submitted2024-08-29T01:52:13Zen_US
dc.date.submitted2024-09-10T20:04:26Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineIndigenous Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)
dc.description.abstractThe socioeconomic and cultural beginnings of the Metis are found within family, extending outward through kinship networks or kinscapes created and maintained to connect families and communities to each other across distances (Lakomaki 2014 in St-Onge and Macdougall 2021, 90). Mobility and migration were both familiar and necessary elements of Metis life. Scholar Chris Anderson (2014) described his own historic self-understanding of being Metis “as a form of memory and nostalgia rooted in the people, places, and events tied to a core of Metis peoplehood, despite its widespread marginalization in contemporary white society” (270). Utilizing genealogical reconstructions and ancestor biographies, this thesis recounts the migration stories of the Breland, Nault/Neault, Thibert, and Zace/Zastre families from which I am a direct descendent. It examines and describes the precolonial beginnings of these Metis families, their early presence on the lands of the northern plains and northwest, their migration to the Red River Settlement, and their subsequent dispersal to the western shores of Lake Manitoba where they established the communities of Ste. Rose du Lac and Cayer. The work is framed by two Indigenous studies frameworks, Wahkootowin (Macdougall 2010; Wildcat 2018; Campbell 2007) and Insurgent Research (Adam Gaudry 2011). Key concepts that provide context for each family’s story include relationality (Moreton-Robinson 2017; Wildcat & Voth 2023), peoplehood (Andersen 2014; Hancock 2021), nationhood (Andersen 2014), and community (Stevenson 2020; Hogue 2015, Andersen 2014).
dc.description.noteOctober 2024
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/38560
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectMetis History
dc.subjectWahkootowin
dc.subjectBreland
dc.subjectNault/Neault
dc.subjectThibert
dc.subjectZace/Zastre
dc.subjectSte. Rose du Lac
dc.subjectCayer
dc.titleFrom the White Horse Plain to the shores of Lake Manitoba: migration stories of my maternal Metis family the Brelands, Naults/Neaults, Thiberts, and Zaces/Zastres.
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayes
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