The Fort McKay Métis Nation A Community History

• Main Author: Fortna, Peter
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Calgary University of Calgary Press 2024
• Subjects: alberta; community; community status; creditable assertation; Ethnic studies; first nation; first nation status; fort mckay; fort mcmurray; HISTORY; History and Archaeology; indigenous; JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies; JBSL11 Indigenous peoples; metis; metis nation; oil sands; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences
• ISBN: 1773855956; 1773855913; 1773855948; 9781773855929; 1773855921; 9781773855950; 9781773855912; 9781773855943

This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, and responses to mass oil sands development. The Fort McKay Métis Nation carefully considers the community’s unique historical context, drawing on a broad range of sources including archival research, oral histories, grey literature, and community literature. It examines the complex interrelations between the Fort McKay Metis Nation and their neighbors, the Fort McKay First Nation, and their ways they have connected with each other. Completed in partnership with the community, The Fort McKay Métis Nation provides perspectives which have never before been shared. It is an important, unique history of a community in the heart of the oil sands.