Stevenson, A.D. (2020) Intimate Integration: The Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship. Toronto, ONT: University of Toronto Press.

Published: Peer-Reviewed Articles

Stevenson, A.D. (2024) “Writing Our People Back into History: A Year in the Life of John James Fidler.” Canadian Historical Review 105 (1) March 2024: 11-40. DOI: 10.3138/chr-20220038.

Fraser, Crystal Gail & Allyson Stevenson. (2022) “Reflecting on the Foundations of Our Discipline Inspired by the TRC: A Duty to Respond During this Age of Reconciliation.” Canadian Historical Review, Vol 103 (1) 2022: 1-31.

Stevenson, A.D. (2019) Book Review Essay. “Thinking Historically through an Indigenous Lens: Kelm and Smith’s Talking Back to the Indian Act,” Canadian Journal of History, 43(3): 376-380.

Stevenson, A.D. (2019) Book Review Essay. ""Democracy in Action:" International Adoption in Twentieth-Century America." Reviews in American History 47(20: 271-278.

Stevenson, A.D. (2015) “The Adoption of Frances T: Blood, Belonging, and Aboriginal Transracial Adoption in Twentieth-Century Canada” in Canadian Journal of History, 50 () WINTER (469-491).

Stevenson, A.D. (2013) “Vibrations Across a Continent: The 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, and the politicization of First Nations leaders in Saskatchewan” in American Indian Quarterly, 37(1- 2): 218-236.

Stevenson, A.D. (2009) “As Men of Their Own Blood”: Métis Participation in the Western Numbered Treaties", Native Studies Review, 18 (1): 67-90.

Published: Book Chapters

Stevenson, A.D. (2025)“From Reforming Indigenous Child Welfare to Restorying Indigenous Kinship: Looking Beyond the Bleeding Heart” in Gina Starblanket and David Long, Visions of the Heart, 6^th Edition. London: Oxford University Press.

Stevenson, A.D. (2024) “Métis Matriarchs in kah–ministik–ominahkoskahk (Cumberland House): mîkisistahikêwin––Beading Together Generations.” In Doris Jeanne MacKinnon and Cheryl Troupe. (Eds.), Métis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition. Regina: University of Regina Press.

Stevenson, A.D. (2024). “Coming Home Through Métis Research.” In Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides. (Eds.), Métis Women’s Contributions to the Academy. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2024.

Stevenson, A.D. (2023) “Dr. Howard Adams’s Halfbreed Histories of Canadian Colonialism: An Indigenous Paradigm for Decolonization” in Maurice Labelle, The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization: Post-Orientalism and the Politics of Difference. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023.

Stevenson, A.D. (2022) “Demanding the Right to Care For Their Own Children” in Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand (eds), Métis Rising: Living Our Present Through the Power of Our Past, Vol. 2. Vancouver: UBC Press, Purich Books, April 2022.

Stevenson, A.D. & Cheryl Troupe. (2020) (50%) "From Kitchen Tables to Formal Organization: Indigenous Women's Social and Political Activism in Saskatchewan to 1980” in Sarah Carter and Nanci Langford (eds), The History of Women’s Political and Social Activism in the Canadian West. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020.

Stevenson, A.D. (2019) “Karen B., and Indigenous Girlhood on the Prairies: Disrupting the Images of Indigenous Children in Adoption Advertising in North America,” Kristine Moruzi, Nell Musgrove and Carla Pascoe Leahy (eds), Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Palgrave , 2019.

Stevenson, A.D. (2004). “Ambassadors Between the East and the West”: The Métis and the Numbered Treaties, 1871-1877” in Mary Jane McCallum and Denise Fuchs, Intersecting Worlds: Rural and Urban Aboriginal Issues, St. John's College Press, 2004.

Stevenson, A.D. (2008) “William McKay” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume WVI (1931-1940) www.biography.ca/en/bio/mckay_william_16E.html 2008.

Indigenous Child Welfare History Métis History Métis Political Activism

My research program is titled “Métis Communities in the West: Politics and Place.”  The program seeks to generate a comprehensive history of the diverse Métis communities that emerged Western Canada in the twentieth century, looking at scrip records, homestead records, and government documents along with oral histories. This profoundly important period witnessed the cultural, political and collective re-emergence of a devastated people. Saskatchewan in particular was home to leaders who have transformed the intellectual, cultural and political landscape of Canada.  My vision for the Chair encompasses contributing to a dynamic field of academic inquiry, Métis studies, as well as raising the profile of Métis histories more broadly.  

This work connects family and place-based histories to the larger Métis homeland, mapping locations of historic Métis communities, road allowance communities and subsequent dispersals. Historic Métis communities in the West outside Red River are significant spaces where Métis peoples generated adaptive communities connected to landscapes, with distinctive cultural, social, political and economic expressions. As Métis people moved out of Manitoba in the 1870’s into the west, families settled in familiar and unfamiliar places, joined pre-existing communities where they may have had kinship ties or formed new communities.  These processes form the basis of Métis experience; mobility, migration, and Métis community-building that have contributed to distinct political identities and organizing strategies that Métis people have adopted. 

In Canada, the Métis people have occupied a liminal space legally, culturally and spatially. Unlike elsewhere in the world, Canadian Métis people successfully secured their place as constitutionally recognized Aboriginal peoples in 1982. However, the period following the 1885 resistance and prior to constitutional recognition provides insight into the resurgence of Métis peoples.  This case study of Anglo-Metis and Scots-Metis communities will focus specifically on Métis notions of land, peoplehood, experiences of colonization and Métis kinship with First Nations and French-Metis peoples.  This research project will build towards the larger, comprehensive history of Métis communities in the West. 

Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan, 2015, Department of History

M.A, University of Saskatchewan, 2004, Department of History

B.A. (Honours) University of Saskatchewan, 2001, Department of History