{"id":573,"date":"2023-02-23T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/?p=573"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:22:22","slug":"david-stirrup-wins-ahrc-grant-for-metis-a-global-indigenous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/2023\/02\/23\/david-stirrup-wins-ahrc-grant-for-metis-a-global-indigenous-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering the history of the M\u00e9tis indigenous people in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/115\/stirrup-david\">Professor David Stirrup<\/a> (School of Humanities), along with his Co-investigator, Chris Andersen (University of Alberta), has been awarded \u00a3284,000 for the project \u2018M\u00e9tis: a Global Indigenous People\u2019 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project will explore Indigenous histories of mobility, focusing on M\u00e9tis travel to and within Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research has narrowly focussed on M\u00e9tis mobility in connection to the fur trade. This project will focus on M\u00e9tis travel to and presence in three European cities\u2013London, Edinburgh, and Paris. In uncovering, and illuminating, the long history of M\u00e9tis presence in these locations, the research will broaden the currently narrow focus on fur trade exchange to include M\u00e9tis figures who have travelled for diplomatic, activist, educational, military, employment, and tourist purposes, opening up this rich history to both M\u00e9tis and European, scholarly and community audiences and documenting their erasure from conventional\/tourist-focused urban histories.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to David on this achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor David Stirrup (School of Humanities), along with his Co-investigator, Chris Andersen (University of Alberta), has been awarded \u00a3284,000 for the project \u2018M\u00e9tis: a Global &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/2023\/02\/23\/david-stirrup-wins-ahrc-grant-for-metis-a-global-indigenous-people\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9112,282612,256079],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}