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- Title
Mennonite and Métis: Adjacent Histories, Adjacent Truths?
- Authors
Kroeker, Travis; Leclair, Carole
- Abstract
The article examines historical interactions between Mennonite populations and the indigenous Métis people in North America and relates the topic to the appropriation of religious symbols and ceremonies by groups with commercial or nontraditional interests. The author relates a personal experience of growing up in the Manitoba Mennonite settlement and the culture shock that was later experienced after leaving Manitoba for Winnipeg to begin kindergarten. This narrative examines the cultural and religious differences of these two regions as a means of examining indigenous practices and the secularization of ceremony. Colonization and appropriation are illustrated through the lens of “Black Elk Speaks,” the autobiography of an Oglala Lakota holy man.
- Subjects
NORTH America; CANADA; MENNONITE colonization; MENNONITES; METIS; HUMAN settlements; COLONIZATION -- Social aspects; RITES &; ceremonies; BLACK Elk Speaks (Book); ABORIGINAL Canadians
- Publication
Journal of Mennonite Studies, 2010, Vol 28, p187
- ISSN
0824-5053
- Publication type
Article