Review of The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis By Walter Hildebrandt

Authors

Paul L. A. H. Chartrand, University of Manitoba

Date of this Version

1986

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 6:3 (Summer 1986). Copyright © 1986 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

Metis readers will tend to react less than enthusiastically to even a fair portrayal of the military campaign which killed those whose deaths they commemorate in 1985. For that the author cannot be faulted. By his indiscriminate and unfortunate adoption of the colonizer's term "half-breed," however, he emphasizes that the traditional perception of the Metis remains.