Suggested Bibliography

American West & les Canadiens

• America: The Lewis & Clark Expedition and the Birth of a New Power by Denis Vaugeois (Septentrion)-available in both English and French
• Lewis and Clark among the Indians by James Ronda (Univ. of Nebraska Press)
• Mapping a Continent: An Historic Atlas of North America by Raymonde Litalien, Jean-Francois Palomino, & Denis Vaugeois (Septentrion) – available in both English and French
• French-Canadians of the West (3 volumes) by Peter Gagne/ Morice O.M.I. (Quintin)
• Empire et Métissage by Gilles Havard (Septentrion)- available in French only
• Histoire de l’Amérique Francaise by Gilles Havard & Cecile Vidal (Flammarion) – French only
• Franco-Amérique sous la direction de Dean Louder et Eric Waddell (Septentrion) – French only
• Voyages et Rencontres en Franco-Amérique by Dean Louder (HAMAC-Carnets) – French only
• Elles ont fait l’Amérique: de remarquables Oubliés tome 1, by Serge Bouchard et Marie-Christine Levesque (Lux Editeur) – French only
• Ils ont couru l’Amérique: de remarquables Oubliés tome 2, by Serge Bouchard et Marie-Christine Levesque (Lux Editeur) – French only
• The Readers Encyclopedia of the American West, edited by Howard Lamar (Harper & Row), entry under ‘Roman Catholic Church,’ authored by Robert Ignatius Burns, S.J., pp1033-1044

Pacific Northwest and les Canadiens

• French-Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest by Jean Barman (UBC Press)
• Children of the Fur Trade: Forgotten Métis of the Pacific Northwest by John C. Jackson (OSU Press)
• Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest edited and translated by Harriet & Adrian Munnick, Mikell Warner and Stephen Beckman (Binford and Mort Publ.)
• Adventure at Astoria: 1810-1814 by Gabriel Franchere, translated and edited by Hoyt C. Franchere (Univ. of Oklahoma Press)
• Making Wawa: The Genesis of Chinook Jargon by George Lang (UBC Press)
• We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community by Martha H. Foster (Univ. of Oklahoma Press)
• I Will Be Meat for My Salish written by Bon Whealdon et al, edited by Bob Bigart (Salish and Kootenai College Press and Montana Historical Society Press)
• At the Hearth of the Crossed Races: A French-Indian Community in Nineteenth-Century Oregon, 1812-1859 by M.M. Jetté (OSU Press)
• Lives Lived West of the Divide: A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders West of the Rockies, 1793-1858 by Bruce M. Watson (UBC Press)
• Storming the Old Boy’s Citadel: Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth-Century America by Carla Blank and Tania Martin (Baraka Books)
• The Northwest Coast: or Three Years’ Residence in Washington Territory by James Swan (Univ. of Washington Press)
• A History of the Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest: 1743-1983 by Wilfred P. Schoenberg, S.J. (The Pastoral Press)

Midwest, Missouri River & les Canadiens

• Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes by Susan Sleeper-Smith (Univ. of Mass Press)
• The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America edited by Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer S.H. Brown (Univ. of Nebraska Press)
• French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times by Carl J. Ekberg (Univ. of Illinois Press)
• The Many Hands of my Relations: French and Indians on the Lower Missouri by Tanis C. Thorne (Univ. of Missouri Press)
• History as They Lived It: A Social History of Prairie du Rocher, Ill. by Margaret Kimball Brown (The Patrice Press)
• The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West by Robert J. Willoughby (Univ. of Missouri Press)
• Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860 by Lucy E. Murphy (Cambridge Univ. Press)
• Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion by Jay Gitlin (Yale University Press)
• French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West edited by Leroy Hafen, selected with Introduction by Janet Lecompte (Univ. of Nebraska Press)
• Invaded on all Sides: The Story of Michigan’s Greatest Battlefield Scene of the Engagements at Frenchtown and the River Raisin in the War of 1812 by Ralph Naveaux (Walsworth Pub. Company)
• Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America’s Frontier by Shirley Christian (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
• French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815, edited by Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale (Michigan State Univ. Press)
• Lives of Fort de Chartres: Commandants, Soldiers, and Civilians in French Illinois, 1720-1770 by David MacDonald (Southern Illinois Univ. Press)
• The Journals of Pierre-Louis de Lorimier 1777-1795 edited by Linda Nash (Baraka Books)
• French and Indians of Illinois River by Nehemiah Matson (Southern Illinois Univ. Press)

 

Les Canadiens in New England

• The French-Canadian Heritage in New England by Gerard J. Brault (Univ. Press of N.E)
• Les Franco-Americains de la Nouvelle Angleterre by Yves Roby (Septentrion) -French only
• Franco-American Life & Culture in Manchester, New Hampshire: Vivre la Difference by Robert B. Perreault (The History Press)
• I remember … Je me Souviens… by Jeanne Douillard

 

Quebecois History

• A People’s History of Quebec by Jacques Lacoursiere & Robin Philpot (Baraka Books & Septentrion)
• Canada-Quebec en bref: 1534-2010 by Jacques Lacoursiere, Jean Provencher & Denis Vaugeois (Septrentrion) – French only
• Oka : Dernier Alibi du Canada Anglais by Robin Philpot (VLB Editeur) – French only
• Vivre la Conquet : à travers plus de 25 parcours individuels sous la direction de Gaston Deschenes et Denis Vaugeois (Septentrion) – French only

 

The Métis and Freemen in the Far West of Canada (and the U.S.)

• Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Families in Indian Country by Jennifer S. H. Brown (Univ. of Oklahoma Press)
• Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society, 1670-1870 by Sylvia van Kirk (Univ. of Oklahoma Press)
• Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories, edited by Carolyn Podruchny & Laura Peers (UBC Press)
• Contours of a People: Métis Family, Mobility, and History, edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall (Univ. of Oklahoma Press)
• From Rupert’s Land to Canada, edited by Theodore Binnema, Gerhard J. Ens & R.C. Macleod (Univ. of Alberta Press)
• The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian family, 1660-1990, by Heather Devine (Univ. of Calgary Press)