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HEATHER DEVINE

CURRICULUM VITAE

ADDRESS: Department of History Faculty of Arts University of Calgary 2500 University Drive N.W. Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4 (403) 220-3894 (403) 282-6716 (fax) hdevine@ucalgary.ca

ACADEMIC RANK Associate Professor

Department of History University of Calgary SCHOLARLY Canadian Native history; American Indian EXPERTISE policy; Western Canadian ethnic history;

Aboriginal ethnic, community, and family formation; museum and archival studies; public history; heritage education and interpretation; cultural resource management.

EDUCATION 2001 Ph.D (History); University of Alberta 1983 M.Ed. (Secondary Education – Educational

Media); University of Alberta, Edmonton. 1977 B.Ed (Secondary Education – Drama

Major/English Minor); University of Alberta

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GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2012 - 2019 SSHRC Insight Grant (#435-2012-0642)

“The J.Z. LaRocque Papers: Métis History and Politics in Southern Saskatchewan, 1886-1945” ($98,586.00)

2010-2013 “Recovering Community Well-Being in Fort Chipewyan” (#RT736352). Member of multidisciplinary research team (University of Calgary and University of Alberta) investigating factors affecting public health and well-being. Project funded by Suncor Energy. ($500,000).

2011 SSHRC Insight Development Grant. For “the J.Z. LaRocque Papers” research proposal ($2000.00).

2008 University of Ottawa/Indian and Northern

Affairs Canada “Post-Powley Resources – National Research Strategy” ($5000.00)

2007 to 2010 SSHRC Aboriginal Strategic Research Grant (#856-2007-0019)

“Patterns of Genesis: Identity, Culture, Communication and Mobility in the Emergence of Northwest Métis Populations”

($223,000.00) - member of research team (four members)

2007 University of Calgary

Special Projects Grant (for opening event at the Nickle Arts Museum – Everett Soop: Journalist Cartoonist, Activist. Museum Exhibition, July 7, 2007 (2,715.00).

2006-2008 Government of Canada

Candian Heritage Exhibition Development Grant Museums Assistance Program (2006-2008) Aboriginal Heritage Component

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(for the development and touring of Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist (1943-2001) ($100,000.00)

2006 University of Calgary

Killam Resident Fellowship (awarded for Fall 2006, deferred to Fall 2007) 2005 Canadian Federation for the Humanities and

Social Sciences - Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme Harold Adams Innis Prize (2004-2005) (best English-Language book in the Social Sciences for The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900).

2004 University of Calgary

Chief John Snow Sr. Teaching Award

2004 Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences - Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme Publication Grant for The People Who Own Themselves (15,000.00)

2002-2005 University of Calgary

URGC Faculty Research Starter Grant (#998240)

2002-2004 SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship (#756-2002-

0243) – DECLINED

2002-2004 Calgary Institute for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship – DECLINED

1998 - 1999 Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowship 1997 - 1998 SSHERC Doctoral Fellowship Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship J. Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award 1996 - 1997 SSHERC Doctoral Fellowship Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship

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1995 – 1996 SSHERC Doctoral Fellowship Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship Honorary University of Alberta PhD

Scholarship 1994 – 1995 Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowship

Honorary University of Alberta PhD Scholarship

1975 University of Alberta Undergraduate

Scholarship CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS Canadian Historical Association IN ACADEMIC Champlain Society SOCIETIES Native American and Indigenous Studies Association SERVICE INTERNATIONAL Centre of Canadian Studies SCHOLARLY School of Social and Political Science SERVICE University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, U.K. Visiting Scholar – 2009-2010 NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL SCHOLARLY SERVICE 2014 – present Royal Alberta Museum Edmonton, Alberta Human History Engagement Panel – Member 2013-2014 Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau,

QC. Canadian History Hall Redevelopment

Project Advisory Committee/History Core Team

(Canada 1867-1945) – invited participant on contract

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2006-2012 Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences - Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme Committee, Ottawa, Ontario

Committee Member – Native Studies (2006-2012: two three-year terms)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Council (SSHRC) Ottawa, Ontario Referee (episodic) 2004-2011 Aboriginal Research Council – University

of Winnipeg

Advisory Committee member for “Aboriginal People in an Urban and Regional Context – the research project headed by Canada Research Chair Jennifer S.H. Brown.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2011-2014 Indigenous Knowledge and Research

Protocol Sub-Committee – Member 2012-2013 Conjoint Faculty Research Ethics

Committee- Member 2012-2013 Academic Awards Committee 2009 Review Committee Lincoln-McKay Chair in American Studies Voting Member 2008-2009 Library and Cultural Resources Academic

Council – non-voting external representative

2003-2005 GFC Library Committee Communication and Culture Representative

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FACULTY SERVICE 2014-2016 MHST Working Group – Member 2015-2016 Aboriginal Academic Appointment initiative

–Member 2011 Faculty of Arts

Selection Committee -Department of English – External Member

2005-2008 Faculty of Communication and Culture Service Learning Committee – Member 2005-2008 Faculty of Communication and Culture Information Resources Enquiry-Based

Learning Committee - Member May 2008 Faculty of Social Sciences Academic Appointment Review Committee Adjuct Associate Professor- one day 2007-2009 Faculty of Communication and Culture Graduate Programs Planning Committee Voting Member from Culture Division 2007-2008 Faculty of Communication and Culture Academic Appointments Review Committee Voting Member 2004-2007 Faculty of Communication and Culture – Library Committee Faculty Representative DEPARTMENT SERVICE 2014-2016 Undergraduate Committee – Member Jan.- June 2015 Acting Coordinator, Canadian Studies

Program 2011-2012 Directions West Conference Planning

Committee – Member

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2010-2013 Graduate Committee - Member MANUSCRIPT REFEREE – SCHOLARLY PRESSES AND JOURNALS

Athabasca University Press Memorial University Press Oxford University Press Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group University of Oklahoma Press University of Nebraska Press University of British Columbia Press University of Alberta Press University of Calgary Press Wilfred Laurier University Press American Indian Quarterly Arctic Canadian Historical Review Ethnohistory Histoire Sociale/Social History Journal of the Canadian Historical Association Museum Management and Curatorship Récherches amérindiennes au Québec Studies in American Indian Literatures

TEACHING Courses Taught (*Graduate Courses) CNST 311 - Native Peoples of the Canadian Plains (with HTST 345 2011 CNST 415 - Canadian Native Art and Cultures: Oral and Written Traditions CNST 417 - Native Culture and Heritage Institutions – Critical Issues CNST 419 - The Métis People of Canada COMS 711 - Directed Study* COMS 790 - Master's Project (supervisor)* CUSP 717 - Heritage and Identity: Issues and Approaches GNST 201 - Introductory Seminar in Communication and Culture HTST 211 - Canada: Origins to 1867 HTST 345 - Canadian Native History HTST 529 - Topics in Canadian Native History

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HTST 593 - Topics in Canadian History HTST 623 - Topics In Canadian History* INDG 401 - Independent Study Course MHST 201 - Introduction to Museum and Heritage Studies MHST 303 - Audience Development for Museums MHST 331 - Critical Issues in Museum and Heritage Studies MHST 501 - Independent Study Course

GRADUATE SUPERVISION MA Supervision

2014 – present Sarah Nason – Department of History

2013-2015 David MacMartin – Department of History

2005-2006 Howard May, Faculty of Communication and Culture Project – Based Thesis

MA Examination Committees

2015 David MacMartin – Department of History – September 8, 2015 2015 Paula Larsson – Department of History – September 2, 2015 2012 Chris Marsh – Department of History – August 31, 2012. 2012 Jessica Bureshi – Department of History – August 17, 2012. 2012 Johann Kyser – Faculty of Environmental Design, University of

Calgary – May 4, 2012. 2010 Paul William Zits, Department of English, University of

Calgary– 17 September 2010. 2008 Brenna Atkinov – Department of Sociology – August 22, 2010. 2007 Corinne George, Department of History. September 5, 2007 2006 Howard May, Faculty of Communication and Culture June 9, 2006 (MA project). 2006 Doris Mackinnon, Department of History, April 26, 2006. 2006 Cash Rowe, Department of Sociology, January 13, 2006. 2004 Camilla Augustus Department of History, November 30, 2004.

PhD. Supervision 2004 – 2012 Doris Mackinnon (co-supervised with Dr.

George Colpitts

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PhD. Candidacy Examination Committees 2016 Tracy Collins-Poitras – Faculty of Education 2016 James Forbes – Department of History

2011 Colin Martin – Department of English 2011 Terri-Lynn Fox – Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate Studies

2009 James Butler – Interdisciplinary Program, Faculty of Arts 2009 Tasha Hubbard – Department of English 2008 Doris Mackinnon – Department of History 2008 Troy Patenaude – Department of Communications 2007 Yvonne Poitras-Pratt –Faculty of Communication and Culture

2007 Gretchen Albers – Department of History, University of Calgary 2006 Brigitte Krieg – Department of Sociology, University of Calgary 2005 June Scudelar – Department of English, University of Calgary

Ph. D. Examination Committees 2016 Tasha Hubbard – Department of English 2014 Cara Hedley – Department of English

2014 James Butler – Interdisciplinary Program, Faculty of Arts 2012 Doris Mackinnon – Department of History 2011 Gretchen Albers – Department of History 2011 Yvonne Poitras-Pratt – Department Of Communications 2008 Brigette Kreig – Department of Sociology

RESEARCH Books (refereed) 2006 Heather Devine, ed. Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist

(exhibition catalogue). Calgary: The Nickle Arts Museum, 2007. 2004 Heather Devine. The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal

Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900. (book, 338 p.p.) 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).

Articles and papers in refereed journals: 2011 Heather Devine. “Ahead of His Time: Joseph Kinsey Howard and

the Writing of Strange Empire.” Montana the Magazine of Western History, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Winter 2011): 55 – 72.

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2011 Heather Devine. “The Alberta Dis-Advantage: Métis Issues and

the Public Discourse in Wild Rose Country.” London Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 26 (2010-2011), 26-62. On-line at: http://www.londoncanadianstudies.org/16773/16794.html

1991 Heather Devine. "The Role of Archaeology in Teaching the Native

Past: Ideology or Pedagogy?” The Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 18, No. 1 (September 1991): 11-22.

1989 Heather Devine. "Archaeology in Social Studies: An Integrated

Approach." The History and Social Science Teacher Vol. 24, No. 3 (Spring 1989): 140-147.

1984 Heather Devine. "The Workout: The Phenomenology of Training." In

Phenomenology and Pedagogy, Vol. 2, No. 2: 163-177. Papers in refereed conference proceedings: 2005 Heather Devine. “Towards a Critical Pedagogy for Museums”. In

Hildegard K. Vieregg, ed. Museology and Audience (Museología y El Público de Museos). Munich: International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM), 2005: 61-68.

1998 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.

1994 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.

Chapters in books (refereed): 2016 Heather Devine. “Foreward”. In Myrna Kostash. The Seven Oaks

Reader. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2016: ix-xii.

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2014 Heather Devine. ”The Plains Métis” (book chapter). C. Roderick

Wilson and Christopher Fletcher, eds. Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience (4th edition). Don Mills, ON.: Oxford University Press, 2014: 328-355

2011 Heather Devine. “After the Spirit Sang: Aboriginal Canadians and Museum Policy in the New Millenium” (book chapter). Angelo Buono and Marina Zito, eds. Ibridità Canadesi (Napoli, Italia: Università Degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2011), 49-75.

2010 Heather Devine. “Being and Becoming Métis: A Personal Reflection” (book chapter). Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny, eds. Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories (Vancouver: UBC Press 2010), 181-210.

2010 Heather Devine. “After the Spirit Sang: Aboriginal Canadians and Museum Policy in the New Millenium” (book chapter). Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, and Rebecca Sullivan, eds. How Canadians Communicate, 3rd. ed. (Athabasca: Athabasca University Press, 2010), 217-239.

2007 Heather Devine. “New Light on the Plains Métis: The Buffalo

Hunters of Pembinah, 1870-71” (book chapter). 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.

2007 Heather Devine. “Prosopographical Approaches in Canadian Native

History” (book chapter). 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.

2007 Heather Devine. “Preface” (book chapter). In Heather Devine, ed.

Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist (exhibition catalogue). Calgary: The Nickle Arts Museum, 2007:10-11.

2007 Heather Devine. “The Historical Context of Everett Soop’s Work”

(book chapter). In Heather Devine, ed. Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist (exhibition catalogue). Calgary: The Nickle Arts Museum, 2007: 38-61.

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2007 Devine, Heather. “New Light on the Plains Métis: The Buffalo Hunters of Pembinah, 1870-71” (book chapter). 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.

2006 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.

2001 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.

1999 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.

1999 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.

1996 Heather Devine “Family History as Canadian History”. In Chinook:

The Journal of the Alberta Family Histories Society Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter 1995/96): 35-42.

1995 Heather Devine. "School Curriculum and Archaeology." Ruthann

Knudson and Bennie C. Keel, eds. The Public Trust and the First Americans. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press for the Center for the Study of the First Americans, 1995: 127-139.

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1994 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.

1994 Heather Devine. "The Indian-Métis Connection: James MacMillan

and His Descendants". Rae Fleming, ed. The Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry 1792 - 1802. Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History, Inc. 1994: 93 -105.

1990 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.

1986 Heather Devine. "Archaeology in Alberta Social Studies: An

Overview." J.W. Ives, ed., Archaeology In Alberta 1985: Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper No. 29. Edmonton: Alberta Culture, 1986: 16-28.

1985 Heather Devine. "The Workout: The Phenomenology of Training".

In Texts of the Body, a monograph from the Lifeworld Editions Series, Human Science in Education Project, Faculty of Education. Edmonton: The University of Alberta, 1985: 33-43. http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/sources/textorium/devine-heather-the-workout-the-phenomenology-of-training/

1984 Heather Devine. "The Workout: The Phenomenology of Training."

In Phenomenology and Pedagogy, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1984): 163-177. https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/pandp/article/view/14946

Book Reviews and Review Articles 2016 Daniel Clayton; Faye Dussart; Heather Devine; and Tony

Ballantyne. “Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World” by Adele Perry (review essay). BC Studies No. 190 ( Summer 2016), 89-106.

2016 Heather Devine. “At the Hearth of the Crossed Races: A French-

Indian Community in Nineteenth-Century Oregon, 1812-1859” by Melinda Marie Jette (book review). Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Summer 2016), 245-246.

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2016 Heather Devine. “French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest” by Jean Barman (book review). BC Studies, No. 188 (Winter 2015/16), 114-115.

2015 Heather Devine. “Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border

and Dividing a People” by Michel Hogue (book review). Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 96, no. 4 (Winter 2015), 606-608.

2014 Heather Devine. “Theorizing Native Studies” by Audra Simpson

and Andrea Smith, eds. (book review). Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 2 (2014), 263-264.

2014 Heather Devine. “The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the

American West” by Andrew R. Graybill (book review). Journal of American History, vol. 101, no. 2 (September 2014), 591.

2014 Heather Devine. “Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law and

Politics” by Christopher Adams, Greg Dahl, and Ian Peach, eds (book review). Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2 (Summer 2014), 199-200.

2012 Heather Devine. “Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistence:

Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927” by Kevin D. Smith (book review). BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, no. 176 (Winter 2012-2013), 167-168.

2011 Heather Devine. “Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange

in an Atlantic World” by Susan Sleeper-Smith, ed. (book review). Journal of American Studies, vol. 45, no.1 (2011), 45.

2010 Heather Devine. “Aboriginal Canada Revisited” by Kirsten Knopf, ed (book review). University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 79, no.1 (Winter 2009/2010), 470-471.

2009 Heather Devine. “Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances” by Andrea Smith (book review). The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 29, no. 1/2 (2009), 309-313.

2009 Heather Devine. “A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant” by John Francis Grant; Gerhard J. Ens, ed. (book review). Montana: The Magazine of Western History, vol.59, no. 2 (Summer 2009), 76.

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2007 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

2007 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 (2007).

2007 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 (2007).

2006 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.

2001 Heather Devine. “Métis Lives, Past and Present: A Review Essay”.

BC Studies, No. 128 (Winter 2000-01): 85-90. 1996 Heather Devine. “The Last Buffalo Hunter” by Norbert Welsh (book

review). In Prairie Forum, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Fall 1996): 274-276. Media and Museum Reviews 1998 Heather Devine. “The Syncrude Canada Aboriginal Peoples Gallery

- A Review”. Alberta Museums Review, Vol. 24, Issue 1 (Spring 1998): 58-62.

1988 Heather Devine "Canadian Arctic Prehistory. Ontario Prehistory.

The Prehistory of the Maritimes. The Prehistory of Newfoundland and Labrador" (media review). Slide sets produced by the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the National Film Board, Ottawa. In The History and Social Science Teacher Vol. 24, No. 1 (Fall 1988).

1988 Heather Devine. "Digging Up Canada's History" (media review).

Sound - filmstrip set produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the Canadian Studies Directorate, Ottawa. In The History and Social Science Teacher Vol. 24, No. 1 (Fall 1988).

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Refereed Conference Papers (2002 - present): 2016 Heather Devine. “Seven Oaks Revisited: The York Trial of 1818 From a

Vernacular Point of View”. Presented at the 2016 Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, University of Calgary, Calgary AB., May 29 - June 1, 2016.

2015 Heather Devine. “Le Vicariat de Grouard: Father Philippot’s History of

Northern Alberta”. Presented at “A Meeting of Western Canadian Studies” – Western Canadian Studies Conference, St. John’s College, Unviersity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, November 5-7, 2015

2015 Heather Devine. “J.Z. LaRocque and the Liberal Party: Métis

Politics in Southern Saskatchewan, 1905-1944”. Presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Washington, D.C. June 3-6, 2015.

2013 Heather Devine. “The Withdrawal of Métis From Treaty After 1885: Some Case Studies.” Annual Meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon. Hosted by the Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon, June 13-15, 2013 (invited speaker).

2012 Heather Devine. “Constructing a Usable Past: Portrayals of the Métis in Western Canadian Vernacular Literature of the Early 20th Century.” Apocalypse Now: 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, University Plaza Hotel, Springfield, Missouri, U.S.A., November 7-10, 2012.

2012 Heather Devine. “Relentless Liberals: The LaRocque – Gardiner Correspondence.” Directions West: Third Biennial Western Canadian Studies Conference. Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary. Hosted by the Department of History, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta June 20-23, 2012.

2011 Heather Devine. “Measuring Health and Wellness in the Athabasca Delta: The Case of Fort Chipewyan.” Aboriginal Biopolitics and Biopower, British Association of Canadian Studies Aboriginal Studies Circle, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. Sponsored and hosted by the Canadian High Commission, London, U.K., 20th May 2011.

2009 Heather Devine. “Now that the Buffalo’s Gone: The Central Alberta Métis After 1878”. Paper presented at Fur Trade and Métis History: Patterns of Ethnogenesis - A Mini-Conference, organized by Nicole St.-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, Brenda

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Macdougall, and Heather Devine, hosted by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) at the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress (CFHSS), Carleton University, Ottawa, May 25-26, 2009.

2008 Heather Devine. “Big Fish and Lost Graves: Cultural Resource Management in the Shadow of Oka”. Paper presented at Coalitions, Collaborations, Conflicts – Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory – Hilton Hotel & Conference Centre, Eugene Oregon, November 12-16, 2008.

2008 Heather Devine. “Indigenous History in Western Canada: A Sociometric Approach.” Paper presented at The West and Beyond: Historians Past, Present, and Future, held at the University of Alberta, and co-hosted by the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, June 19-22, 2008.

2008 Heather Devine. “A Fur Trade Patriarch: Michael Klyne of Jasper

House” Paper presented at the 2008 Rupert’s Land Colloquium, held at Rocky Mountain House, Alberta and hosted by the Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies, University of Winnipeg; the Confluence Heritage Society, Rocky Mountain House; and the David Thompson Bicentennial Brigade, May 14-16, 2008.

2007 Heather Devine. “Aboriginal Heritage in Canadian Museums: Some

Recent Trends”. Paper presented at How Canadians Communicate: Contexts of Popular Culture, hosted by Athabasca University and the Alberta Global Forum at the Banff Centre, Banff Alberta, October 11-14, 2007 (invited speaker).

2007 Heather Devine. “The Mother of Turtle Mountain: Charlotte

Pelletier and her Children”. Paper presented at Beyond Borders and Boundaries: David Thompson and the North American Fur Trade, hosted by the Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana, June 15-16, 2007 (invited speaker).

2007 Heather Devine. “Half-Breed Tracts, Scrip, and Allotments: A

Comparative View.” Paper presented at Fur Trade and Métis Days, a conference co-sponsored by the Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association (CINSA) and the Canadian Historical Association (May 27-28), as part of the 86th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, 76th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 26-June 2, 2007.

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2006 Heather Devine. “Creoles and Canadiens: The Reformulation of the Montreal Trade in St. Louis, Missouri”. Paper presented at the 9th North American Fur Trade Conference and 12th Rupert’s Land Colloquium, St. Louis Missouri, May 24-28, 2006.

2006 Heather Devine. “The Past as Pedagogy: Family History in a

University Classroom.” Paper presented at Positioning Ourselves: Indigenous Knowledges, hosted by the Department of Educational Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, March 8-10, 2006 (invited speaker).

2006 Heather Devine. “Métis Studies for the 21st Century”. Paper

presented at Beyond Red River: New Views of Métis History, hosted by the American Indian Studies Program at Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan, 27 February 2006 (invited speaker).

2005 Heather Devine. “Conversations with ‘Les gens de la Montagne

Tortue’ – 1952”. Paper presented at Resistance and Convergence: Francophone and Métis Strategies of Identity in Western Canada, Centre d’études franco-canadiennes de l’Ouest (CEFCO), Institut Français, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan - October 20-23, 2005 (invited speaker).

2005 Heather Devine. “Marking Our Place: The Métis Woman’s Voice in

Indigenous Scholarship”. Paper presented at Indigenous Women and Feminism: Culture, Activism, Politics, a conference held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, on August 25-28, 2005 (invited speaker).

2005 Heather Devine. “The Use of Prosopographical Methods in

Canadian Native History”. Paper presented at Prosopography: Approaches & Applications, Jesus College, Oxford, U.K. Organized by the Prosopography Centre of the Modern History Research Unit University of Oxford – July 15-18, 2005.

2005 Heather Devine. “Towards a Critical Pedagogy for Museums”.

Paper presented at Museology and Audience: International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) Meeting, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta - June 30 - July 2, 2005.

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2004 Heather Devine. “New Directions for Métis Women’s History”. A paper presented at “Centering Gender History” - Women’s and Gender Historians of the Midwest , Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois - 12 June 2004 (invited speaker).

2004 Heather Devine. “A Fur Trade Diaspora: Canadien Merchant

Families in St. Louis After the British Conquest”. Paper presented at the 83rdAnnual Meetings of the Canadian Historical Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 3-5, 2004.

2004 Heather Devine. “’But is it REAL?’ Establishing the Provenance of

The Buffalo Hunters of the Pembinah Manuscript”. Paper presented at the Rupert’s Land Colloquium, May 26-29, 2004 in Kenora, Ontario.

2003 Heather Devine. “An Englishman ‘Goes Métis’: Identity and

Insanity in The Buffalo Hunters of the Pembinah, 1870-72”. Paper presented at the British World Conference II of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of Calgary, July 10-12, 2003.

2003 Heather Devine. “Proto-Métis Community Formation and the Rise

of the Métis People”. Paper presented at The Métis People in the 21st Century – University of Saskatchewan, Radisson Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan June 18-20, 2003 (invited speaker).

2002 Heather Devine. “The Buffalo Hunters of Pembinah: A Case Study

in Documentation.” Paper presented at History on the Line: Borders, Boundaries and Boxcars – 29th Annual Montana History Conference, Havre, Montana, October 24-26, 2002.

2002 Heather Devine. “‘Reconceiving’ Métis Women: New Perspectives

from Primary Sources”. Paper presented at Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West Through Women’s History. Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary, June 13-16, 2002.

2002 Heather Devine. “Aboriginal Naming Practices: Implications for

Historical Analysis”. Paper presented at From Rupert’s Land to Oxford – Rupert’s Land Colloquium 2002, Mansfield College, Oxford, U.K., April 9-12, 2002.

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1998 Heather Devine. “Pelts and Pedigrees: Genealogical Research Techniques for Studying French Fur Trade Communities”. Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 11 - 14 November, 1998.

Public Lectures, Lecture Tours, and Panels (UNREFEREED) Lectures 2016 Heather Devine. “The Battle of Seven Oaks From a Descendant’s

Point of View”. Public Lecture Presented at Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Seven Oaks. Faculty of Native Studies, Pembina Hall, University of Alberta, on June 18, 2016.

2014 Heather Devine and Cora Voyageur. “Idle No More: What it Is – and Isn’t”. Luncheon presentation hosted by the Canadian Club of Calgary at Fort Calgary on January 23, 2014 (invited speakers).

2013 Heather Devine. “The Alberta Dis-Advantage: Métis Politics in Alberta”. Hosted by the Rupertsland Centre for Métis Research, at the Faculty of Native Studies, Pembina Hall 2-06, University of Alberta, Edmonton, March 25, 2013 (invited speaker).

2013 Heather Devine and Cora Voyageur. “Idle No More and the Future of Aboriginal Life in Canada.” Hosted by the Faculty of Communication Studies and the Iniskim Centre, Mount Royal University, as part of the SOMAR Speaker Series at the Moot Court (EA1031), Mount Royal University, Wednesday March 6, 2013 (invited speakers).

2013 Heather Devine; Casey Eaglespeaker; Brian Calliou; and Cora Voyageur, et al. “Indigenous Academics’ Teach-In – University of Calgary #IdleNoMore”. Hosted by Department of Sociology and IdleNoMore in Professional Faculties 118, February 7, 2013 (invited speakers).

2010 Heather Devine. “The British in the Canadian Fur Trade”. Invited lecture to a reserch seminar in the Department of Canadian and American Studies, Unviersity of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., on 22 February, 2010.

2010 Heather Devine.”After the Spirit Sang: Aboriginal Canadians and Museum Policy in the New Millenium.” Centre of Canadian Studies, Visiting Scholar Lecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K., on 28 January, 2010 (invited speaker).

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2009 Heather Devine. “The Métis”. Lectures in the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, U.K. November 24-26, 2009 (invited speaker).

2009 Heather Devine. "Native Issues and the Public Discourse in Canada: A Critique and Call for Action" (invited speaker). Indigenous Peoples: Historical Understandings, Contemporary Challenges, and Canadian Approaches. British Association of Canadian Studies Aboriginal Studies Circle, sponsored and hosted by the Canadian High Commission, London, U.K., 5th October 2009.

2009 Heather Devine. “Métis Entrepreneurs in History” (after dinner speech). Métis Entrepreneurship Leadership Awards Dinner, hosted by Métis Nation of Alberta Region #3, April 17, 2009.

2009 Heather Devine. “Everett Soop’s Cartoons: Their Social and Political Context.” Presentation at University of Winnipeg, Centennial Hall, Friday 6, March 2009 (invited lecturer).

2007 Heather Devine. “Back to the Archives: New Methods for Métis Women’s History”. Paper presented at David Thompson: New Perspectives, New Knowledge, a symposium hosted by the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta October 26-27, 2007 (invited speaker).

2007 Heather Devine. “The Use of Onomastics in the Genealogical

Reconstruction of Métis Families.” Métis Historical Research Symposium, sponsored by the Métis National Council National Research Initiative and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, May 4-6, 2007 (invited speaker).

2004 Heather Devine. “First Nations and Métis Genealogical Research”.

Presentation at Family Roots 2004: Alberta Family Histories Society 20th Annual Genealogical Seminar, Calgary, Alberta, October 15-16, 2004. (invited speaker).

2003 Heather Devine. “New Light on the Plains Métis: The Buffalo

Hunters of Pembinah, 1870-71”. Paper presented at The Métis, Canada’s Forgotten People: The Years of Achievement?. A symposium on Métis Studies co-sponsored by the School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University and the Métis National Council at the Odawa Friendship Centre, Ottawa, Ontario March 19, 2003 (invited speaker).

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1999 Heather Devine. “Reserching Métis Roots”. Presentation at Wild Rose Seminar ’99: Alberta Family Histories Society 20th Annual Genealogical Seminar, Calgary, Alberta. October 29-30, 1999 (invited speaker).

1999 Heather Devine . “Researching Your Métis Heritage”. Presentation

to members of the Parkland Local, Métis Nation of Alberta, Stony Plain Alberta, Tuesday March 16, 1999 (invited speaker).

Lecture Tours 2009 Heather Devine. “Canada’s Multicultural Policies and Indigenous

Heritage”. A lecture tour of Canadian Studies programmes at Italian universities November 12-22, 2009, undertaken at the request of the Canadian High Commission. Devine, Heather

2006 Heather Devine. “The History of Canada’s Métis People: A Brief Overview.” One of four guest speakers invited to participate in Canada’s Forgotten People: the Métis, a lecture tour of Scandinavian universities (Aarhus, Denmark; Oslo, Norway; Göteborg, Sweden, and Turku, Finland) sponsored by the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, March 18-23, 2006 (invited speaker).

Panels

2016 Heather Devine. “What Makes a Scholarly Book ‘Great’ ? A Reviewer’s Perspective”. Paper Presented as part of a Roundtable on Jean Barman’s French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest, winner of the 2015 John A. Macdonald Prize from the Canadian Historical Association. Presented at the 2016 Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, University of Calgary, Calgary AB., May 29 - June 1, 2016.

2013 Heather Devine; Yvonne Poitras-Pratt, Gabrielle Fayant; Aruna Srivastava (moderator). “Social Justice Movements in the Internet Age: The Digital Life of IdleNoMore.” A panel discussion hosted by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, November 14, 2013 (Invited participant).

2008 Heather Devine. “Art and Institutional Praxis” (panel). At Legacies and Futures: Beyond ‘The Spirit Sings’, a twentieth – anniversary symposium co-sponsored by the Alberta College of Art and Design and the Glenbow Museum, Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre, Alberta College of Art and Design, March 14, 2008 (invited participant).

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2005 Heather Devine. “A Walk Down Memory Lane: One Hundred Years

of Human Rights Abuses in Alberta.” Part of a writers panel entitled “One Hundred Years on the Prairies” presented at The Alberta We Want: In Canada and the World, Parkland Institute 9th Annual Fall Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, November 18-20, 2005 (invited speaker).

Workshops 2015 Heather Devine. “Old Trails and New Directions (Revisited): Métis

History in an Uncertain World”. Presented at the 2nd Annual Métis Studies Workshop – NAISA – June 3, 2015, Washington, D.C. (Invited speaker).

2010 Heather Devine. “The Politics of Historical Memory: Macdonald and the Métis People”. John A Macdonald: Fresh Perspectives and New Legacies. A workshop devoted to John A. Macdonald’s legacy, held at Oakham House, Ryerson University, Toronto, December 3-4, 2010 (invited speaker).

2009 Heather Devine. “The Métis at Buffalo Lake”. Central Alberta Regional Consortium Social Studies Project. Workshop held at Content Bridge, Content, AB, May 11, 2009. Guest speaker and discussant in samll group sessions (Invited participant).

2008 Heather Devine. “Marie Rose Delorme Smith”. Paper presented at the Western Canadian Workshop for the Commemoration of the History of Women in Canada, hosted by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board, Parks Canada, Vancouver B.C. February 29, 2008 (invited participant).

2007 Heather Devine. “Métis Identity and Culture in Alberta Métis

‘Homelands’. Presentation to student participants in summer workshop in Edmonton and field trip to Métis Crossing. Asokan Project, Edmonton , Alberta, July 18, 2007 (invited speaker).

2004 Heather Devine. “Traditional Métis Governance.” Presentation to

workshop participants as part of the Revitalizing Aboriginal Nationhood Series – Establishing Culturally Appropriate Institutions for Contemporary Aboriginal Governments. Indigenous Leadership and Management Programme, Banff Centre School of Management (invited speaker).

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1999 Heather Devine. “First Nations and Métis Genealogical Research”. A workshop presented at Centennial 1899: A Conference in Commemoration of the Initial Signing of Treaty #8 and the Distribution of Scrip in the District of Athabasca in 1899- Grouard Alberta, 17 - 21 June, 1999 (invited by Indian Land Claims Research Unit, Alberta Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs).

1999 Heather Devine - “A Brief History of the Métis from Contact to 1900”

- delivered to CNR executives and community members at a Cultural Awareness Workshop, Fishing Lake Métis Settlement on Wednesday, May 12, 1999 (invited speaker).

1998 Heather Devine. “Negotiating Identity: Kinship, Power and Métis

Ethnogenesis Among Canadien Freemen.” Presentation at Métis Origins, Identity, and Contemporary Rights: A Symposium. Workshop hosted by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Aboriginal History Circle, Trent University, at Peter Robinson College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, January 17-18, 1998 (invited speaker).

MEDIA INTERVIEWS (Radio and Television Broadcasts;

Documentary Film; Training and Instructional Film 2012 Heather Devine. On-camera interview and background narration in

Solar Hero 2. Produced by Business On Camera. The film dealt with the production of the solar-powered home by the University of Calgary in partnership with Treaty 7. I provided commentary on traditional and contemporary aboriginal housing. On-line: https://vimeo.com/95458158

2009 Heather Devine. One of four historical experts ( with Sarah Carter,

Blair Stonechild, and Rudy Weibe) interiewed by Myrna Kostash on 30 April 2009, and recorded at CKUA Radio. Later broadcast as part of “Voices From Frog Lake”, an episode of CBC’s Ideas, aired nationally on CBC Radio One on November 21, 2009.

2009 Heather Devine. “Everett Soop Exhibition”. Opening

Reception,University of Winnipeg Gallery 1C03, on March 5, 2009. Several interviews with local press, including CBC Radio Manitoba (Francophone); APTN National News.

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2008 Heather Devine. “Tail Creek Renaming Ceremony”. Interviewed by APTN camera crew covering the historic re-naming ceremony of Content Bridge Campground as Tail Creek Park (near Stettler, Alberta).

2007 Heather Devine. “The Métis and Women in the Fur Trade”. Part of

a series of radio programmes (part of Parks Canada’s David Thompson Bicentennial Series) aired over the summer of 2007 on Banff Park Radio 101.1 FM.

2004 Heather Devine. The Great Divide: the Journeys of David

Thompson (documentary film). Edmonton: Great North Productions, 2003. I provided on-camera interview and commentary concerning the Canadian Fur Trade for this film, which aired on the History Channel and other cable outlets.

2002-03 Heather Devine. “Diary Linked to Louis Riel”. This initial

interview, conducted with staff of the Calgary Herald on November 21, 2002, resulted in the story being acquired by the Canadian Press and Reuters and reprinted across Canada. Examples of the coverage include: “Diary Linked to Louis Riel,” Calgary Herald (22 November 2002; cover story and photo: A1, 19); “Diary May Unlock Mystery of Louis Riel's Life in Exile,” Edmonton Journal (22 November 2002, A10); “Diary May Explain Rebel's Time in U.S.,” Regina Leader Post (23 November 2002, D14); “Diary Could Provide Story of Riel's U.S. Years,” Globe & Mail (23 November 2002, A21D); “Diary May Finally Reveal Riel's ‘Lost Years’,” Winnipeg Free Press (23 November 2002; cover story: A1, A4); and “Mysterious Diary Could Shed Light on Riel in U.S.,” Victoria Times-Colonist (25 November 2002, B4). I also completed radio interviews related to the project: CHQR-77 Calgary; CBC Regina;CBC Winnipeg; CBC - "As it Happens" - interview with Mary Lou Findlay (Friday 29 November 2003), as well as an on-camera interview on CBC’s The National in January of 2003.

1999 Heather Devine. “First Nations and Métis Genealogical Research”.

In Session B: Genealogy Basics and Aboriginal Archival Resources – Treaty 8 Centennial Research Workshops, One of a series of five recorded programs focussing on Aboriginal genealogy and other related historical research techniques (videotape and video-CD). Producer: Josten International in collaboration with the Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council - Treaty 8 Centennial Office.

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1995 Heather Devine. “Métis Genealogy”. An interview and phone-in session recorded with Dave Rutherford on Radio Station QR77 AM, Calgary, Alberta on October 26, 1995.

Museum Exhibitions 2009 Heather Devine and Geraldine Chimirri-Russell, co-curators.

Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist. (touring exhibition). University Archives Gallery, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg Manitoba, 5 March 2009 - 4 April 2009.

2009 Heather Devine and Geraldine Chimirri-Russell, co-curators.

Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist. (touring exhibition). Alexander Galt Museum, Lethbridge, Alberta, January 2009 – February 28, 2009.

2007-08 Heather Devine and Geraldine Chimirri-Russell, co-curators.

Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist (touring exhibition) The First Nations University Gallery, First Nations University of Canada, Regina SK. 16 November 2007 - 31 March 2008.

2007 Heather Devine and Geraldine Chimirri-Russell, co-curators.

Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist, Activist. The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. July 6 – September 29, 2007.

Unpublished Research Reports Prior to 2002 1994 Devine, Heather. Aboriginal Archives in Alberta: An Inventory and

Needs Assessment. Final report on file, Provincial Archives of Alberta, Historic Sites and Archives Service, Alberta Community Development, Edmonton.

1986 Devine, Heather, Volunteers in Archaeology: Directions for the

Future. Final report on file, Archaeological Survey of Alberta, Edmonton.

1985 Devine, Heather, Curriculum Development in Archaeology and

Prehistory: A Needs Assessment in Social Studies Education. Final report on file, Archaeological Survey of Alberta, Edmonton.

1984 Devine, Heather, Adult Literacy Via Audio, Print, and Tutor. Final

report on file, ACCESS Radio CKUA, Edmonton.

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1982 Heather Devine. Audiovisual Materials Utilization in Alberta Secondary School Drama: A Needs Assessment. Unpublished M.Ed. colloquium, University of Alberta, Edmonton.

WORKS IN PROGRESS 2016 Heather Devine. "The Vale Is Fairest of the Fair": Dispossession of

Métis Land in the Qu'Appelle Valley (1885-1945)”. Paper to be presented at the “Ethnohistories of Native Space” – Annual Conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Nashville TN., November 9-12, 2016.

2016 Heather Devine. “A Toolkit for Survival: Métis Adaptation to

Socioeconomic Change in the Nineteenth Century West”. Paper to be presented at “Expanding western Horizons” – 56th Annual Conference of the WHA, St. Paul MN., October 20-23, 2016.

2017 Colpitts, George and Heather Devine, eds. Finding Directions West: Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past (working title) (book). Calgary: University of Calgary Press (in press).

2017 Colpitts, George and Heather Devine. “Introduction: Migration and Transformation in the Canadian West.” In George Colpitts and Heather Devine, eds. Finding Directions West: Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past (working title) (book). Calgary: University of Calgary Press (in press).

2017 Heather Devine. “J.Z. LaRocque: A Métis Historian’s Account of His Family’s Experiences During the North-West Rebellion of 1885.” In George Colpitts and Heather Devine, eds. Finding Directions West: Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past (working title) (book). Calgary: University of Calgary Press (in press).

2017 Heather Devine. “What Makes a Scholarly Book ‘Great’ ? A Reviewer’s Perspective”. Article Manuscript Under Development for the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.

2017 Heather Devine. “Old Trails and New Directions (Revisited): Métis History in an Uncertain World”. Article manuscript under development for an anthology.

n.d. Heather Devine, ed. The Buffalo Hunters of Pembinah (annotated manuscript under development)

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Policy Research and Project Development – on Contract 2010 Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Gatineau, QC. Review of Theatrical and Exhibition text for

“Profit and Ambition: The Canadian Fur Trade” – museum exhibition.

2007-2009 Wilson Laycraft Barristers and Solicitors,

Calgary AB.

Research and Advisory Services (episodic) related to Métis Litigation – Ken Staroszik, counsel.

2004 – 2006 Government of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. Alberta Aboriginal Affairs and Northern

Development Aboriginal Land and Legal Issues Branch

Researcher –Métis land claims. Final Report: “The History of the Métis in

Southern Alberta During the 19th Century” Nov. 2001 – Sept. 2002 Calgary Civic Trust Calgary, Alberta Project Director (part-time)

- conference planning and hosting (Cities of the Rocky Mountain West, September 5-6, 2002); preparation of organization’s minutes and correspondence; preparation of grant applications; supervision of summer staff, other miscellaneous tasks.

July 1993 - June 1994 Historic Sites and Archives Service,

Alberta Community Development. - contract researcher - prepared an inventory

and institutional needs assessment pertaining to aboriginal archival holdings in Alberta, entitled “Aboriginal Archives in Alberta”.

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Professional Development Workshops 1999 lecture – “Métis History ” - delivered to

Texaco executives and community members at a Cultural Awareness Workshop, hosted by and held at the Fishing Lake Métis Settlement on Wednesday, May 12, 1999 .

1998 - lecture - “A Brief History of the Jasper Métis

from Contact to 1900”- delivered to participants in joint meetings held by representatives of Parks Canada and the Métis Nation of Alberta, February 27 - 28, 1998 (invited to participate and speak by Métis Regional Council Zone IV, Métis Nation of Alberta as one of the Métis Nation representatives).

- lecture - “Early Métis History” - delivered to

employees of Centra Gas Alberta as part of the Fishing Lake Oil and Gas Workshop, held in the Centra Gas Alberta Training Room, Leduc, Alberta, Monday, February 9, 1998 .

1997 - lecture - “A Brief History of the Métis from

Contact to 1885” - delivered to Texaco executives and community members at a Cultural Awareness Workshop, hosted by and held at the Fishing Lake Métis Settlement on Monday, October 20, 1997 (engaged on behalf of Texaco by Lorne Dustow, Northeast Co-Chair, Métis Settlements - Office of the Commissioner of Services for Children and Families, Government of Alberta).

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY – 1977-1998 September - December 1998 The University of Alberta Faculty of Arts Department of History and Classics Sessional Lecturer (part - time) - HISTORY 460 - SEM A1 Topics in Canadian History: Public History Alberta Community Development Historical Resources Division July 1991 - June 1993 The Provincial Museum of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Consultant, Special Services Program (Cultural Consultant III)

- liaised with First Nations and Métis communities and organizations to assist in the development of new policies and programs for community and museum - based research, collection, display, and interpretation of Native heritage.

March 1991 - June 1991 Education Officer, Archaeological Survey of

Alberta (Cultural Consultant III)

- see Public Education Officer, Archaeological Survey of Alberta.

January 1985 - March 1991 Archaeological Survey of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Public Education Officer (Cultural Consultant III)

- developed and distributed educational materials, prepared research and policy papers, provided consultation services to individuals and organizations involved in archaeology and social studies education, developed and delivered on-site and outreach educational programming.

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- member of Divisional and interdepartmental educational policy committees.

- supervised temporary and volunteer staff. September 1983 - April 1984 The University of Alberta Faculty of Education Department of Secondary Education Edmonton, Alberta Sessional Lecturer (full-time)

- ED C.I. 352 Teaching in the Secondary School - ED MDA 351 Introduction to Educational Media and Instructional Technology - supervised student teachers in both Phase II and Phase III Practicums as faculty consultant/representative.

September 1981 - April 1983 Graduate Assistant - Ed. C.I. 352 Teaching in the Secondary School for three consecutive terms (course instructor). - supervised student teachers in both Phase II and Phase III Practicums as faculty consultant/representative.

October 1980 - August 1981 Reed Communications Edmonton, Alberta Researcher, Assistant Production Co-

ordinator, Dubbing Center Operator

- conducted research, recruited talent, scheduled shooting, and assigned production crews involved in educational video production. - duplicated videotapes and trained other dubbing center employees.

July 1979 - June 1980 - worked and travelled through Europe, the

Middle East, and Mexico.

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September 1977 - June 1979 Peace River School Division #10 Lloyd Garrison School Berwyn, Alberta Classroom Teacher

- taught secondary Language Arts and electives. Duties included extra-curricular athletics and tutoring. - obtained Permanent Professional Teaching Certificate in July of 1979 (#630-79).

OTHER EMPLOYMENT 1977 - 1983 Alberta Government Telephones (AGT),

Avent Media, Ltd; Grant MacEwan Community College; Reed Communications; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC); ACCESS Radio CKUA; AADAC.

Edmonton, Alberta.

- actor/narrator for various video, audio, and stage projects.