Program Coordinator Museum and Heritage Studies (MHST)
SSHRC Aboriginal Strategic Research Grant (#856-2007-0019)
"Patterns of Genesis: Identity, Culture, Communication and Mobility in the Emergence of Northwest Métis Populations"
Métis Nation of Alberta Zone 3
"The History of the Métis at Buffalo Lake
Research Coordinator and Principle Investigator
During the Fall and Winter terms of 2009-2010 I will be on research and scholarship leave. During this period I will be a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh: http://www.cst.ed.ac.uk/
- B.Ed. (Secondary Education), University of Alberta
- M.Ed. (Educational Media), University of Alberta
- Ph.D. (History), University of Alberta
CNST 401 (The Métis People of Canada)
CNST 417 (Native Culture and Heritage Institutions - Critical Issues)
CNST 415 (Canadian Native Art and Cultures - Oral and Written Traditions)
GNST 201 (Understanding Your Roots: Research into Communities and Families)
MHST 201 (Introduction to Museum and Heritage Studies)
MHST 303 (Audience Development for Museums)
MHST 331 (Critical Issues in Museum and Heritage Studies)
CUSP 303 (Heritage and Identity: Issues and Approaches)
CUSP 711 (Directed Study)
Heather Devine. The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 16601900. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004. (WINNER Harold Adams Innis Prize - Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (best English-Language book in the Social Sciences, 2004-05).
Heather Devine "Prosopographical Approaches in Canadian Native History".K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, ed. Prosopography Approaches and Applications: A Handbook. Prosopographica et Genealogica - Occasional Publication, vol. 13. Linacre College, Oxford: Unit for Prosopographical Research, 2007, 361-386.
Heather Devine. "The Historical Context of Everett Soop's Work." In Heather Devine, ed. Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist (exhibition catalogue). Calgary: The Nickle Arts Museum, 2007:38-61.
Heather Devine. "New Light on the Plains Métis: The Buffalo Hunters of Pembinah, 1870-71". David W. McNab and Ute Lischke, eds. The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007: 197-218.
Heather Devine. "'Œconomy Must Now Be the Order of the Day': George Simpson and the Reorganization of the Fur Trade to 1826". Don Wetherell, Catherine Cavanaugh, and Michael Payne, eds. Alberta Formed - Alberta Transformed (Alberta Centennial History anthology). Edmonton: Alberta 2005 Centennial History Society, 2006: 161-178.
Heather Devine. "Les Desjarlais: The Development and Dispersion of a Proto-Métis Hunting Band". In Ted Binnema, Gerhard Ens, and Rod Macleod, eds. From Rupert's Land to Canada: Essays in Honour of John E. Foster. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001: 129-158.
Heather Devine. "Archaeology in Social Studies: An Integrated Approach" (reprint). In Roland Case and Penney Clark, eds. The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies: Issues and Strategies for Teachers (Vancouver: Pacific Educational Press, 1999): 59-65. Original article published in The History and Social Science Teacher Vol. 24, No. 3 (Spring 1989): 140-147.
Heather Devine. "Archaeology in Social Studies: An Integrated Approach" (reprint). In K.L. Feder, ed. Lessons From the Past: An Introductory Reader In Archaeology. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publications, 1999: 113 - 118. Original article published in The History and Social Science Teacher Vol. 24, No. 3 (Spring 1989): 140-147.
Heather Devine. "Ambition Versus Loyalty: Miles Macdonell and the Decline of the North West Company". In Jo-Anne Fiske, Susan Sleeper Smith and William Wicken, eds. New Faces of the Fur Trade - Selected Papers of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference-Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1995. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1998: 247-281.
Heather Devine. "Archaeology, Prehistory, and the Native Learning Resources Project." Peter Stone and Brian Molyneaux, eds. The Presented Past: Heritage, Museums and Education. One World Archaeology Series. London: Routledge Ltd. 1994: 478-494.
Heather Devine. "Roots in the Mohawk Valley: Sir William Johnson's Legacy in the North West Company". Jennifer S.H. Brown, William J. Eccles, and Donald P. Heldman, eds.The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1994: 217-242.
Heather Devine. "Archaeology in the Alberta Curriculum: An Overview." P. Stone and R. MacKenzie, eds. The Excluded Past: Archaeology in Education. One World Archaeology Series. London: Unwin Hyman Ltd. 1990: 190-200.Reviews:
Heather Devine. "The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture" by Albert Braz (book review). History of Intellectual Culture, vol. 7, no. 1 (2007). Online journal, at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic
Heather Devine. "The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands" by Sheila McManus (book review). "Letters in Canada 2005." University of Toronto Quarterly 76:1 (Winter 2007), 470-471.
Heather Devine. "Montana 1911: A Professor and His Wife Among the Blackfeet" by Mary Eggermont-Molenaar, trans. and ed. (book review). "Letters in Canada 2005." University of Toronto Quarterly 76:1 (Winter 2007), 553-555.
Heather Devine. "Saint-Laurent, Manitoba: Evolving Métis Identities, 1850-1914" by Nicole St.-Onge (book review). Histoire Sociale - Social History, vol. XXXIX, no. 77 (mai-May 2006), 318-320.
Heather Devine. "Métis Lives, Past and Present: A Review Essay". BC Studies, No. 128 (Winter 2000-01): 85-90.
Heather Devine. "The Syncrude Canada Aboriginal Peoples Gallery - A Review". Alberta Museums Review, Vol. 24, Issue 1 (Spring 1998): 58-62.
Heather Devine. "The Last Buffalo Hunter" by Norbert Welsh (book review). In Prairie Forum, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Fall 1996): 274-276.