![]() ![]() An earlier iteration of this work was published as The People of the Metis Nation in 2011. The Metis dictionary of Biography is intended to give the reader an overview of Metis History through the biographies of a very diverse cross-section of North America's Metis people. The accounts herein cover the past as well as contemporary Metis figures. We also attempt to correct the oversight of previous historical treatments which have failed to document the lives of Metis women. ![]() Achievements in the arts, sports and literature are included. Day-to-day events as well as historical turning points are recounted. Within this volume, well-known Metis personalities as well as the unsung heroes of Metis communities and families are documented. The Metis were essential in commercializing both the fur trade with the invention of the York boat, and the buffalo hunt with the invention of the Red River cart. ![]() Often known as founders of the fur-trade, the Metis of what was to become the Canadian and American Northwest participated as trappers, guides, interpreters, factors, dock and warehouse workers, voyageurs, coureurs de bois, canoe and York boat operators, couriers of the first postal services, and Red River cart teamsters. The Metis Dictionary of Biography is intended to give the reader an overview of Metis History through the biographies of a very diverse cross-section of North America's Metis people. Supplement #2: The Polee and Lucy Allen Lines: Supplement #2 with Funeral Programs on the Descendants of the Slave Ship Clotilda and Africatown, Alabama The two Supplements (available in May 2022) are presented as separate, stand-alone documents.Supplement #1: The Polee and Rose Allen Lines: Supplement #1 with Funeral Programs on the Descendants of the Slave Ship Clotilda and Africatown, Alabama. ![]() o Annex 2: Information on possible memberships in lineage organizations o Annex 3: Calculation of the possible number of descendants o Annex 4: Various relevant obituaries and articles o Annex 5: Possible previously unknown Clotilda survivors o Annex 6: A song about Kupollee Allen o Annex 7: Information on the author.
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