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The Strangers is a very interesting novel which took me on a learning journey about the Métis people of Canada.
Amongst other things, I learned that I should not have included The Strangers in my post announcing First Nations Reading Week, and I should not have described the Canadian author Katherena Vermette (b) as a &#;Red River Métis (Michif) Canadian First Nations author&#; &#; because the Métis people are not among the First Nations of the North American continent.*
The Métis refers to a group of Indigenous peoples who inhabit Canada&#;s three Prairie Provinces, as well as parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and the Northern United States.
They have a shared history and culture and are of mixed Indigenous and European (primarily French) ancestry which became a distinct group through ethnogenesis by the midth century, during the fur trade era.
In Canada, the Métis, with a population of , as of , are one of three major groups of Indigenous peoples that were legally recognized in the Constitution Act of , the other two groups being the First Nations and the Inuit. (Wikipedia, lightly edited to remove unnecessary links and footnotes, viewed 17/6/22)
Vermette, as she describes herself on her website, is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer f
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The following paper is proof that it is safest in the long run to be a pessimist about Russia. Freedom and freedoms in Russia come around in long, elliptical orbits, heating up only at the apex of the short-end turn. The topic was dictated by the symposium &#; A Leap to Freedom? Russia Since the Fall of Communism &#; to which I was invited to deliver the paper in October The question mark in the symposium title belonged to the wise organisers, who understood well that any talk about freedom and Russia must be left as a question. The meetings were held at the Oakley Center for Humanities and Sciences at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. At the time of the writing we were at a point when Russian culture had enjoyed a little over of a decade of generally increasing freedom. True, there were ample signs that the fun was about to end. But it was still a dynamic period in culture and I don&#;t believe I was making up the guarded optimism that I expressed in my address. It really wasn&#;t even so much optimism, as it was a declaration of fact that growth was still at hand. Whatever the case, a piece like this now reads like what it is &#; a blast from the deep, long-gone past.
My fondest memories of this conference &#; which was amicable and professional in all
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