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Faculty of Arts
University of Alberta

Ens, Gerhard

Dr. Gerhard Ens

(Professor)

Ph.D., University of Alberta
M.A., University of Manitoba
B.A., University of Manitoba

 

 

2-14 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-6383

 

gens@ualberta.ca

Research Interests:

  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Metis Society and Politics
  • The Fur Trade
  • The Missionary West
  • Oblates/CMS
  • Settlement of the West

Currently completing From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Metis History and Identity from the 18th to 21st Centuries, and editing a scholarly edition of the Fort Edmonton fur trade journals from 1806-1821

Teaching Interests:

  • Canadian History
  • The Canadian and American Wests
  • Environmental History
  • Native History
  • Fur Trade History

Recent Publications

  • “Gabriel Dumont, Big Bear, and the Indian Rebellion of 1885: The Case of the Peace Hills Reserves, 1884-1885,”  in Denis Gagnon, Denis Combet, and Lise Gaboury-Diallo (eds) Histoires et identités métisses: Hommage à Gabriel Dumont/Histories and Métis Identities: A Tribute to Gabriel Dumont. Saint-Boniface: Presses universitaires de Saint-Boniface, 2009. .
  • A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, June 2008.
  • “Hybridity, Canadian Indian Policy, and the Construction of Metis Aboriginal Rights in the 19th Century.” Reconfigurations of Native North America: Selected Papers of the Ninth Biennial Maple and Eagle Conference on North American Studies, edited by John Wunder and Kurt Kinbacher. Texas Tech University Press, 2008.
  • “Fatal Quarrels and Fur Trade Rivralries: A Year of Living Dangerously on the North Saskatchewan, 1806-07,” in  Alberta Formed - Alberta Transformed, edited by Michael Payne, Donald G. Wetherell, and Catherine Cavanaugh. Edmonton and Calgary: University of Alberta Press & University of Calgary Press, 2006.
  • “The Border, The Buffalo, and the Metis of Montana,” in The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on the Regional History of the 49th Parallel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

 

 

 

 

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