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Research Talk: ‘Métis Peoplehood and Ontology’
Friday, March 20, 2015 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 am
- In-person event
- 1811, Dunton Tower, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
As part of the Department of English Language and Literature’s Research Talks, Prof. Sebastien Malette will be giving a presentation, entitled, “Métis Peoplehood and Ontology”.
Everyone welcome!
Métis politics provides a fantastic window to better understand Indigenous political movements. In the case of the Métis, it reveals at least two political ontologies. On the one hand, we find a political ontology influenced by binary classic nationhood criteria, requesting the “birth” of a “New People” grounded in what is conceived as an exclusionary delineated space: the “Metis Historic Homeland.” On the other hand, we see a more flexible and relational approach to Métis identity based on this notion of being “walkers” of both worlds. This Research Talk will discuss an alternative model to think of Métis “peoplehood” that operates on the basis of a more relational, pragmatic, and multi-centred approach to Métis identity.