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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: "We know who we are": Multiethnic identity in a Montana Metis community Abstract: "We Know Who We Are": Multiethnic Identity in a Montana Métis Community explores Métis ethnic identity in the United States by closely examining the families who established the longest continuously occupied Métis community in Montana. This study investigates the role of self-ascription, ascription, kinship, economic factors, institutional pressures, government policy, gender, and discrimination in the development and maintenance of ethnic identification among persons of mixed-descent. The examination of identity in a small group of Métis who, despite a lack of legal and historical recognition, and in spite of poverty and prejudice, have maintained a sense of community and common history since the early nineteenth century raises basic questions about the nature of ethnicity. This work speaks to the difficulties of ethnic identification encountered by all people of mixed-ethnic descent who, bound by rigid ethnic definitions, have been unable to fully express the varied aspects of their heritage or have been forced to accept an ascribed identity that does not fit their experience and self-perception. |
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