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Rooster Town challenges the lingering mainstream belief that Indigenous people and their culture are incompatible with urban life and opens the door to a broader conversation about the insidious nature of racial stereotypes ubiquitous among the broader Canadian polity. --Brenda Macdougall Places like Rooster Town are known and talked about within the contemporary Metis world-everybody knows somebody whose parents or grandparents came from these types of invisible and often marginalized communities-but there has been no acknowledgment of their existence within Canadian historical, geographic, sociological, or political scholarship. --Brenda Macdougall Very little is written about Indigenous urban histories. They are typically hidden, or erased, from the histories of Prairie cities, and Canadian cities generally. Rooster Town is an authoritative correction to that colonial erasure in the written record. --Ryan Walker Winnipeg is haunted, appropriately, by Rooster Town. I am so glad we will soon have Evelyn Peters' book to learn from and work with. --Adele Perry University of Manitoba In addition to addressing the gap in scholarship regarding Metis urban experiences, and impressive attention to detail, the real strength of Rooster Town lies in its successful dismantling of colonial narratives that depict Indigenous people as out of place in modern urban society. --Chantal Fiola Transmotion

Rooster Town challenges the lingering mainstream belief that Indigenous people and their culture are incompatible with urban life and opens the door to a broader conversation about the insidious nature of racial stereotypes ubiquitous among the broader Canadian polity. --Brenda Macdougall Places like Rooster Town are known and talked about within the contemporary M tis world-everybody knows somebody whose parents or grandparents came from these types of invisible and often marginalized communities-but there has been no acknowledgment of their existence within Canadian historical, geographic, sociological, or political scholarship. --Brenda Macdougall Winnipeg is haunted, appropriately, by Rooster Town. I am so glad we will soon have Evelyn Peters' book to learn from and work with. --Adele Perry University of Manitoba Very little is written about Indigenous urban histories. They are typically hidden, or erased, from the histories of Prairie cities, and Canadian cities generally. Rooster Town is an authoritative correction to that colonial erasure in the written record. --Ryan Walker

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Evelyn Petersis an urban social geographer whose research has focused on First Nations and Métis people in cities. She taught in the Universityof Winnipeg's Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies, where she held a Canada Research Chair in Inner-City Issues, CommunityLearning, and Engagement. Mathew Stock lives in Ottawa, Ontario, where he works as a civil servant. His research interests include social policy and Canadian history. Adrian Werner is a GIS analyst whose work has included research in urban form and urban history. Lawrie Barkwell is Coordinator of Métis Heritage and History Research at the Louis Riel Institute.

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