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'{{unsourced|date=September 2019}} {{for|the fictional character|Mr. Adams and Eve}} {{short description|20th century Metis academic}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]]. --> | name = Howard Adams | image = Howard Adams.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|09|08}} | birth_place = [[St. Louis, Saskatchewan]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|09|08|1921|09|08}} | death_place = [[Vancouver, British Columbia]] | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | nationality = | citizenship = Canada | education = | alma_mater = [[University of California, Berkeley]] | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = [[Indspire Awards|National Aboriginal Achievement Award]] | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!-- www.example.com --> | portaldisp = }} '''Howard Adams''' (September 8, 1921 &ndash; September 8, 2001) was a twentieth century [[Métis people (Canada)|Metis]] academic and activist. ==Life== He was born in [[St. Louis, Saskatchewan]], Canada, on September 8, 1921, the son of Olive Elizabeth McDougall, a French Métis mother and William Robert Adams, an English Métis ([[Anglo-Metis]]) father. In his youth he briefly joined the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]]. Adams became the first Métis in Canada to gain his PhD after studies at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1966.<ref>{{cite web|title=Howard Adams]|url=http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/adams_howard_1921-2001.html|work=Encyclopaedia of Saskatchewan|accessdate=26 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630190750/http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/adams_howard_1921-2001.html|archive-date=30 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> He returned to Canada and became a prominent Métis activist, contributing regularly to newspapers and magazines and appearing on [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] radio shows.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Voth |first1=Daniel |title=Order Up!The Decolonizing Politics of Howard Adams and Maria Campbell with a Side of Imagining Otherwise |journal=Native American and Indigenous Studies |date=Fall 2018 |volume=5 |issue=2 |page=16}}</ref> In 1969, he was elected president of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weinstein |first1=John |title=Quiet Revolution West: The Rebirth of Metis Nationalism |date=2007 |publisher=Fifth House Publishers |isbn=9781897252215 |page=30}}</ref> Adams' intellectual influences include [[Malcolm X]] whom he saw lecture at Berkeley, and the general radical environment of that institution during the 1960s. He was the maternal great grandson of [[Louis Riel]]'s lieutenant [[Maxime Lepine]] who fought in the [[Northwest Rebellion]] of 1885. Adams died in [[Vancouver, British Columbia]] on September 8, 2001, on his 80th birthday. ==Works== * ''The Education of Canadians 1800-1867: The Roots of Separatism'', Harvest House, 1968 * ''Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View'' New Press, 1975, {{ISBN|9780887702112}}; Fifth House, 1989, {{ISBN|9780920079515}} * ''Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization'' Theytus Books Ltd., 1999, {{ISBN|9780919441378}} == Honors == * [[Indspire Awards|National Aboriginal Achievement Award]], now the Indspire Awards, for education, 1999. ==See also== *[[History of Saskatchewan]] *[[Politics of Saskatchewan]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.metismuseum.ca/browse/index.php/700 Metis Museum Page on Howard Adams] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070905193811/http://www.sicc.sk.ca/faces/madamho.htm Aboriginal Faces of Saskatchewan: Howard Adams] == Further reading == * Hartmut Lutz, Murray Hamilton and Donna Heimberker. "Howard Adams: OTAPAWY! The Life of a Metis Leader in his Own Words and in Those of his Contemporaries." Saskatoon: Gabriel Dumont Institute, 2005. {{ISBN|0-920915-74-4}} * [[Hartmut Lutz]]: ''Identity as Interface: Fact and Fiction in the Autobiographical Writings of Howard Adams,'' in idem, ''Contemporary achievements. Contextualizing Canadian Aboriginal literatures.'' Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures, 6. Wißner, [[Augsburg]] 2015, pp 222 – 240 * Hartmut Lutz: ''Not "Neither-Nor" but "Both, and More?" A Transnational Reading of Chicana and Metis Autobiografictions by [[Sandra Cisneros]] and Howard Adams,'' in idem, ''Contemporary achievements. Contextualizing Canadian Aboriginal literatures.'' Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures, 6. Wißner, Augsburg 2015, pp 241 – 260 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Howard}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2001 deaths]] [[Category:Canadian activists]] [[Category:Canadian Marxists]] [[Category:Writers from Saskatchewan]] [[Category:Métis writers]] [[Category:Canadian Métis people]] [[Category:Indspire Awards]] {{Canada-activist-stub}}'