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- Title
Michif loss and resistance in four Metis communities: Kahkiyaw mashchineenaan, "All of us are disappearing as in a plague".
- Authors
MAZZOLI, MARIA
- Abstract
Thirty-three years ago, Crawford (1985) described Michif use in four Metis communities in Canada and the USA, and singled out Michif as a stable language, common to several communities in the North American prairies. This paper focuses on four Metis communities as o f 2017, and describes patterns o f Michif loss and strategies o f resistances within those. First, I describe the different varieties o f Michif and locate some communities within central Canada and the USA where Michif is still spoken. Then, I focus on the communities o f the Turtle Mountain Reservation (USA), Boggy Creek and San Clara (Manitoba), Muskowekwan First Nation (Saskatchewan) and Brandon (southern Manitoba).
- Subjects
MICHIF language; METIS; LANGUAGE attrition; RESISTANCE to government -- History; NATIVE American reservations
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 2019, Vol 39, Issue 1, p96
- ISSN
0944-7008
- Publication type
Article