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      Ties undone : a gendered and racial analysis of the impact of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion in the Saskatchewan district

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      Date
      2004
      Author
      Millions, Jodi Erin
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      The Northwest Rebellion, in comparison to other North American civil wars, was short-lived and geographically contained, but for the people who lived through it, the residents of the Saskatchewan district, 1885 was a real and a frightening ordeal. By exploring micro-relations at the individual, family and community levels, and focusing on the connections between residents and ways that they related to each other, a portrait of the region emerges that reveals that Euro-Canadians and Aboriginals were linked to each other in many, and often subtle ways before the uprising. Drawing on personal papers, government and Hudson's Bay Company records, and oral histories, this study shows that race and gender were determining factors in how white, First Nations, Metis and mixed-blood men and women experienced both the conflict itself and its aftennath. Furthermore, its impact on residents' lives and society in the Saskatchewan territory was considerable and the effects long-lasting. Barriers, both physical and social, were created and solidified, and, although groups were still linked by the same family ties that bound them before the spring of 1885, the ways that they viewed each other changed after the rebellion. Mistrust and hostility that had not existed before, or that had been repressed, broke the bonds that connected racial groups, and sometimes families. The new order in Saskatchewan was one in which Euro-Canadians held power, and Aboriginals were second-class citizens barred from mainstream society. The rebellion accelerated white domination of the region, and acted as a catalyst for the racial divisions evident in Saskatchewan in the twentieth century.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      History
      Program
      History
      Supervisor
      Korinek, Valerie J.
      Committee
      Miller, James R.; Waiser, William A.
      Copyright Date
      2004
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-10182007-090232
      Subject
      Northwest Rebellion - personal relations
      implications of race and gender
      Northwest rebellion - Métis families
      Northwest Rebellion - societal impact
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