We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community

The work's most original contribution is its analysis of genealogical and census data tracing the group's constellation amid the fur trade, migrations to the upper Missouri River region, seminomadic hunting and farming economy, and ultimate settlement patterns near Spring Creek, Montana. Carrying the analysis forward to the group's civil rights and tribal recognition efforts would have strengthened this otherwise thought-provoking book's central thesis regarding the volitional, self-ascribed aspects of ethnic identity.