Métis Coming Together invites readers to witness the knowledge exchanges that occur in community. Diverse perspectives from Métis across the homeland help us convene a dynamic and generous thinking space to broaden our individual and collective understandings of Métis-ness. Topics addressed from a Métis lens include relationality, kinship, history, storytelling, language revitalization, poetry, futurities, sexuality, feminisms, geographies, religion and spirituality, self-determination, and sovereignty. The collection provides opportunities to learn contemporary Métis ways of knowing and being.
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/Solčne 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: "Its
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, Riels 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 TimeRed River Edition.
Laura Forsythe, PhD, is a Michif Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in the Faculty of Education. Forsythes 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 Hudsons 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.
