• Source: Howard Adams

      • Howard Adams (September 8, 1921 – September 8, 2001) was a twentieth century Metis academic and activist.


      Life


      He was born in St. Louis, Saskatchewan, Canada, on September 8, 1921, the son of Olive Elizabeth McDougall, a French Métis mother and William Robert Adams, an English Métis (Anglo-Metis) father.
      In his youth he briefly joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Adams became the first Métis in Canada to gain his PhD after studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1966.
      He returned to Canada and became a prominent Métis activist, contributing regularly to newspapers and magazines and appearing on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio shows. In 1969, he was elected president of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan.
      Adams' intellectual influences include Malcolm X whom he saw lecture at Berkeley, and the general radical environment of that institution during the 1960s. He was the maternal great grandson of Louis Riel's lieutenant Maxime Lepine who fought in the North-West Rebellion of 1885.
      Adams died in Vancouver, British Columbia on September 8, 2001, on his 80th birthday.


      Works


      The Education of Canadians 1800-1867: The Roots of Separatism, Harvest House, 1968
      Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View New Press, 1975, ISBN 9780887702112; Fifth House, 1989, ISBN 9780920079515
      Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization Theytus Books Ltd., 1999, ISBN 9780919441378


      Honours


      National Aboriginal Achievement Award, now the Indspire Awards, for education, 1999.


      See also


      History of Saskatchewan
      Politics of Saskatchewan


      References




      External links


      Metis Museum Page on Howard Adams
      Aboriginal Faces of Saskatchewan: Howard Adams
      Archives of Howard Adams (Howard Adams fonds, R10982) are held at Library and Archives Canada


      Further reading


      Hartmut Lutz, Murray Hamilton and Donna Heimberker. "Howard Adams: OTAPAWY! The Life of a Metis Leader in his Own Words and in Those of his Contemporaries." Saskatoon: Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2005. ISBN 0-920915-74-4
      Hartmut Lutz: Identity as Interface: Fact and Fiction in the Autobiographical Writings of Howard Adams, in idem, Contemporary achievements. Contextualizing Canadian Aboriginal literatures. Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures, 6. Wißner, Augsburg 2015, pp 222 – 240
      Hartmut Lutz: Not "Neither-Nor" but "Both, and More?" A Transnational Reading of Chicana and Metis Autobiografictions by Sandra Cisneros and Howard Adams, in idem, Contemporary achievements. Contextualizing Canadian Aboriginal literatures. Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures, 6. Wißner, Augsburg 2015, pp 241 – 260

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