The Free People - Li Gens Libres: A History of the Métis Community of Batoche, Saskatchewan

Revised and expanded to include fresh research, a discussion of recent interpretive trends, and a review of new literature, The Free People—Li Gens Libres is a comprehensive history of the Métis community and national historic site of Batoche, Saskatchewan.

Diane Payment has a long personal association with Batoche; her study is the culmination of thirty years of documentary and field research as a participant—observer within the community. Her inquiry draws on a range of dictated and writt...