Métis Coming Together

Laura Forsythe, PhD, is a Michif Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in the Faculty of Education. Forsythe’s research focus is Métis-specific contributions to the academy, Métis inclusion eff orts, Métis research methodologies, and educational sovereignty. She is also the elected Bison Local Chairperson of the Manitoba Metis Federation, the official democratic and self-governing political representation of the Red River Metis. Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cyr lines. Her ancestors worked for the Northwest and Hudson’s Bay Companies, fought in the Victory of Frog Plain, and owned Lot 31, the site of a contemporary Métis space called Pakan Town. Jennifer Markides, PhD, is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Youth Well-Being and Education, and an Associate Professor in the Werklund School of Education and the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on the holistic wellbeing of youth and Indigenous education. Her Métis family surnames are McKay, Favel, Ballenden/Ballendine, Linklater, and McDermott/MacDermott, including Scrip records and connections to Red River.

Chelsea Gabel: Foreword – Jennifer Markides/Laura Forsythe: Introduction: Multifaceted Métis: Unavoidable Considerations Around Our Complex Identities – Laura Forsythe/Lucy Delgado: The Reason We Gather: Métis- Specific Spaces – Red River Readers: Red River Readers in Multivocal Flux: Across, Between, and Beyond Traditional Disciplinary Approaches to Métis Studies – Shannon Leddy: The Power of Dancing in Two Worlds: Finding a Fit for Métis Identities in Academia – Kurtis Boyer/Paul Simard Smith: The Métis Nation, Epistemic Injustice, and Self- Indigenization – Chantal Fiola: Returning to Ceremony: A Métis Spiritual Resurgence – Kisha Supernant/Emily Haines/Solène Mallet Gauthier/Maria Nelson/Eric Tebby/William T. D. Wadsworth/Dawn Wambold: Archaeology with Our Ancestors: The Exploring Métis Identity Through Archaeology (EMITA) Project – Robert L. A. Hancock: On Being Elsewhere to Stay: Reflections on Métis Responsibilities Living in the Homelands of Other People – Heather Foulds/Jamie LaFleur/Leah Ferguson: "It’s Very Different Walking in Two Worlds as a Métis Person": Identity, Community, Culture and Connections as Determinants of the Health and Wellbeing of Métis Peoples – Laura Forsythe: The Grandmothers of the Prairies to Woodlands Indigenous Language Revitalization Circle – Suzanne M. Steele/with an introduction by Nicole Stonyk: Li Keur, Riel’s Heart of the North, an Artistic Narration of Métis History through Peoplehood: Addressing Métis (mis)Recognition and Recentering Métis Women – Yvonne Poitras Pratt/Billie- Jo Grant: Métis Arts as Education: Visual Storytelling, and More, in Alberta – Angie Tucker: Raindrops, Fiddles, and Tall Tales: Navigating Our Diversity Through Storytelling – Lucy Delgado: Learning to Listen Closely: The Listening Guide and "I Poems" in Métis Research Methodologies – Michelle Porter: I Could Turn into a River When I Was a Girl: Crooked Methodologies and the Gathering Research Framework – Angie Tucker/KD King (Sangria Jiggz)/Tanya Ball/Paul L. Gareau: Storying Métis Sexualities: Métis Confessions: Our First Time—Red River Edition.