Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed Cayuga Language In the first English-language novel

In the first English-language novel to be published by a Haisla writer

and houses built to withstand frigid winters

the Haida People are known throughout Canada and the world for their artistic achievements

the flawed scientific theories stemming from faulty assumptions of Indigenous decline and disappearance

Sophie Morigeau

Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed Cayuga Language In the first English-language novelScott Berthelette is Red River Mtis, a member of the Manitoba Mtis Federation and author of Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire : French Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Mtis in the Hudson Bay Watershed. The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone.