Dr. Cheryl Troupe Faculty

Cheryl Troupe’s work examines Métis land use and occupancy of the Qu’Appelle Valley from 1850 to the mid-twentieth century. It looks at change and continuity in food harvesting practices, land tenure, spatial organization and family, kinship, and gender roles. Utilizing a methodology called “deep mapping” to merge qualitative approaches with digital technologies, it combines Indigenous community-based and oral history research methods, genealogical reconstruction, and Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS).