The nineteenth-century Metis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - figures in Canadian culture. Since his hanging for treason in 1885, the self-declared David of the New World has been depicted variously as a traitor to Confederation; a French-Canadian and Catholic martyr; a bloodthirsty rebel; a pan-American liberator; a pawn of shadowy white forces; a Prairie political maverick; a First Nations hero; an alienated intellectual; a victim of Western industrial progress; and even a Father of Confederation.
Albert Braz synthesizes the...
The nineteenth-century Metis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - figures in Canadian culture. S...
The nineteenth-century Metis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - figures in Canadian culture. Since his hanging for treason in 1885, the self-declared David of the New World has been depicted variously as a traitor to Confederation; a French-Canadian and Catholic martyr; a bloodthirsty rebel; a pan-American liberator; a pawn of shadowy white forces; a Prairie political maverick; a First Nations hero; an alienated intellectual; a victim of Western industrial progress; and even a Father of Confederation.
Albert Braz synthesizes the...
The nineteenth-century Metis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - figures in Canadian culture. S...
Offers the first comprehensive study of Grey Owl's cultural and political image. While the denunciations of Grey Owl are often interpreted as a rejection of his appropriation of another culture, Albert Braz argues that what troubled many people was not only that Grey Owl deceived them about his identity, but also that he had forsaken European culture for the North American Indigenous way of life.
Offers the first comprehensive study of Grey Owl's cultural and political image. While the denunciations of Grey Owl are often interpreted as a reject...
