Sébastien Malette Author & Editor

Dr. Michel Bouchard is Chair and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. He was born in northern Alberta and grew up in a French-speaking community that was in the shadow of the historical fur economy. His research on ethnicity and nationalism took him from his small town to the city of Narva in Estonia, located on the border with Russia, and deep into the territories of northern Russia. He has examined both contemporary identity as well as the historical origins of nationhood in the medieval period. His recent research has been examining the history of the French-speaking populations of western Canada and British Columbia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Robert Foxcurran is an independent historian who grew up in up in a military family, including several years each in France and Japan. He holds undergraduate degrees in French and Japanese studies and a Masters in Business Economics and Business History. He worked for 30 years at Boeing. Author of NATO: A Business History (Boeing, 1986) and "Les Canadiens: Resettlement of the Metis into the Backcountry of the Pacific Northwes" in, Columbia: Quarterly of the Washington State Historical Society (Fall 2012).

Sébastien Malette is an Assistant Professor of law at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He holds a PhD from the University of Victoria (BC) and did Postdoc studies at the University of Melbourne. He has specialized on Métis and French-Canadian heritage with ties and friendships within indigenous communities in different parts of North America. He is an expert in Aboriginal Law with a focus on access to justice, Indigenous legal traditions, relational politics and worldviews. His work also focuses on ostracized Métis or "mixed-Heritage" Indigenous communities, their histories and resilience. Sébastien Malette lives in Gatineau, Québec, Canada.