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Melinda Marie Jetté is a native Oregonian and a descendant of the French Canadian men and Native women who resettled French Prairie. The recipient of a M.A. in History from Université Laval and a Ph.D from the University of British Columbia, Canada, she is Associate Professor of History at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire, USA.
Melinda Jetté's absorbing history of French Prairie belongs on
every western history bookshelf. It reminds us that the history of
Oregon does not begin with the Whitmans or the Oregon Trail. The
author "aim[s] to connect French Prairie to the larger history of
French-speaking peoples in American history." This she most
certainly has done--and this French perspective redraws the map. It
turns out that the road from Québec passes just south of Portland,
Oregon. --Jay Gitlin, author of The Bourgeois Frontier: French
Towns, French Traders & American Expansion
With deep research and sensitive analysis, Melinda Jetté has
written a big history of a small place. In the experiences of the
'bicultural' French-Indian families of French Prairie, Oregon, she
reveals both the insidious work of colonialism and the inventive
ways that individuals--Indians, French Canadians, and other
Euro-Americans--adapted to the rapidly changing dynamics of the
nineteenth-century American West. A highly satisfying, and often
quite surprising, study. --Brett Rushforth, author of Bonds of
Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France.
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