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Giraud, Marcel (b.1900) [info]. Le métis canadien: son róle dans l'histoire des provinces de l'ouest. Paris: Institut d'ethnologie, 1945.

Physical description: lvi, 1296, [3] p., 3 leaves of plates, fold. maps.; 21.5 cm.

Language: French

Reprinted in 2 vols., with introduction by J.E. Foster with Louise Zuk, Saint-Boniface, Man.: Éditions du Blé, 1984. Translated by George Woodcock as, The Metis in the Canadian West , Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1986 (631p.; 729p.). Study of the social history of the Métis in western Canada, describing role they played in the fur trade era and their development as a distinct group. Considered comprehensive, if dated in its racial characterizations.

Subject headings:

• French-Canadians--Canada, Western--History
• Indians of North America--History
• Métis