Within the rich lineage of Alberta Métis Cultural History and indigenous history overall, Julia Auger offers up her own experiences. When asked “who are the Métis people and what does it mean to be Métis?”, Auger said, “We are. I’m a Métis. I’m a mixed life. Not white. I’m not really… I live in both…
Within the rich lineage of Alberta Métis Cultural History and indigenous history overall, Hugh Chalifoux offers up his own experiences. When asked “who are the Metis people?”, Chalifoux’s answer revealed the outsider racism that has often followed that identity. He said, “Métis people are half white, half native. Half breeds. That’s what I think. Apparently,…
Within the rich lineage of Alberta Métis Cultural History and indigenous history overall, Frank Ghostkeeper offers up his own experiences. Ghostkeeper went to school in McLennan as well as High Prairie and ended up in Paddle Prairie a bit later on. During the times of residential schools, Ghostkeeper was on a farm so he said…
Within the rich lineage of Alberta Métis Cultural History and indigenous history overall, Emma Willets offers up her own experiences. When asked “what does it mean to be Metis?”, Willets stated, “I guess it means that kind of like the best of both worlds. Because we are like the mixed race. We get, for me,…
Within the rich lineage of Alberta Métis Cultural History and indigenous history overall, Doreen Batchlor offers up her own experiences. When asked “who are the Metis people?”, Batchlor said, “Métis people were people that had that; have two generational family. There’s European, the white, and First Nation. The man usually married a first nation woman,…
Within the rich lineage of Alberta Métis Cultural History and indigenous history overall, Brenda Farnel offers up her own experiences. When asked “who are the Metis people?”, Farnel touched on the complexities that can come with answering a question like that. She said, “We’re not treaty. The only treaty we had was my grandma. But…
Within the rich lineage of Alberta Métis Cultural History and indigenous history overall, Adolphus Auger offers up his own experiences. When posed the question “who are the Metis?”, Auger stated, “I don’t know, part Indian and part white, mixed blood yeah.” When asked “what was it like having to travel from where you were…