Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

List of Maps

Introduction

Part One: The Birth of the Nation

Chapter 1: The Old Wolves

Chapter 2: The Voyageurs

Chapter 3: The Mothers of the Métis Nation

Chapter 4: Going Free

Chapter 5: The First National Resistance

Chapter 6: Victory at the Frog Plain

Part Two: Making the Nation

Chapter 7: After the Merger

Chapter 8: The Buffalo Hunters

Chapter 9: The Iron Alliance

Chapter 10: The Métis Nation Army

Chapter 11: The Battle of the Grand Coteau

Part Three: No Company’s Slave

Chapter 12: The Second National Resistance

Chapter 13: Taking the Fight to the Court

Part Four: The Red River Resistance

Chapter 14: The Third National Resistance

Chapter 15: The Resistance Begins

Chapter 16: Bringing in the English Métis

Chapter 17: Canada Sneaks into Red River

Chapter 18: Fateful Decisions

Part Five: Early Life with Canada

Chapter 19: The Reign of Terror

Chapter 20: Canada Takes the Land

Chapter 21: The Diaspora

Part Six: The North-West Resistance

Chapter 22: The Fourth National Resistance

Chapter 23: La Guerre Nationale

Chapter 24: After Batoche

Chapter 25: The Trial of Louis Riel

Part Seven: Settlement

Chapter 26: Scrip

Chapter 27: St. Paul des Métis

Chapter 28: The Métis Settlements in Alberta

Chapter 29: Rock Bottom

Part Eight: Renaissance

Chapter 30: The Fifth National Resistance

Chapter 31: The Hunt for Justice

Chapter 32: Métis Identity

Chapter 33: Freedom and Infinity

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Notes

Index

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher