| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2 | The History Cooperative

*We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community*. By Martha Harroun Foster. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
As if to emphasize the notorious complexity of American Indian Studies, Martha Harroun Foster's interesting new study explores the complicated history of mixed-ancestry people in Montana whose communities, lifeways, public faces, and private self-definitions varied over time and responded to economic shifts, political events, institutional evolution, and the migrations of many disparate groups.	1
The book begins with background on Métis (intermarried Indian/Euro-American) families from the Great Lakes and Red River areas, who moved west in response to the transition from diverse smaller-game fur trade economies to bison-hunting on the Plains and reliance on buffalo-robe and pemmican sales. By the 1860s, numerous Métis bands with their distinctive two-wheeled "Red River carts" hunted and camped in Montana. By 1879, a band had settled on Spring Creek, a Judith River tributary of the Missouri River, many of its members gaining land under the Homestead Act in the 1880s.	. . .

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