Questions for David Lee, "The Metis Militant Rebels of 1885."

1.  What element of the Northwest Rebellion does Lee argue has not been properly studied? How does his article address this deficiency?

2.  What concepts (or conceptual frameworks) does Lee use to study the Metis community in the Northwest Rebellion?

3.  How does Lee describe the Metis communities and the Metis on the south Saskatchewan River? What sort of activities did they engage in? What brought them to the region? etc.

4.  What criteria does Lee use to identify military Metis? What weaknesses does this criteria possess?

5. What, according to Lee, are the defining characteristics of the militants?

6.  How is "ethnicity" a fluid concept during the Northwest Rebellion?