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| Winner - 2011 Clio Prize - The Prairies | | | The CHA is proud to announce that this year's winners of the 2011 Clio Prize for the Prairies Brenda Macdougall for her book One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan. The Clio prizes are awared to to meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions by individuals or organizations to regional history. One of the Family develops an innovative methodological approach by combining the tools of genealogy with more traditional historical sources to produce a nuanced history of Metis families in Saskatchewan’s northwest. The book offers a delicate interplay of Metis and observer/participant voices, and the Committee appreciated the author’s frequent challenges to Euro-centric interpretations of Metis history, and the attempt to rebalance that history in favour of a greater recognition of Aboriginal ways of life and the permeability between “Indian” and “Metis” cultures. Macdougall emphasizes the Aboriginal connection to homeland and family, and opens new avenues for research on both methodological and historiographical grounds. | | |
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