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Knowing Who You Are: Métis history, identity, and the Métis Nation today

This webinar explores the historical and cultural significance of Métis identity and its relevance in the contemporary Métis Nation. It delves into topics such as traditional stories, reciprocal family models, responsibility discourse, and maternal connections to land. The webinar also discusses stereotypes faced by Métis individuals and highlights the stories of influential Métis women. Presented by Brenda Macdougall, Chair of Métis Research at the University of Ottawa, as part of the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health Webinar Series.

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Knowing Who You Are: Métis history, identity, and the Métis Nation today

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  1. Knowing Who You Are: Métis history, identity, and the Métis Nation today Brenda Macdougall Chair Métis Research, University of Ottawa for National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health Webinar Series, 27 January 2016

  2. Traditional Stories of People Marrying Animals

  3. Woman Who Married a Beaver -

  4. All My Relationsas Worldview Family as a way of life Reciprocal Family Model (B. Medicine) How to be a human being (E.C. Deloria) Responsibility (as opposed to rights-based) discourse

  5. Maternal Connections to Land • Raphael Morin, Devil’s Lake, SK 1887 “we live[d] in the land of my mother who was originally from the lands of [her] parents [because] most of the time [we] were in the … lands of her relatives as we had no interest in the lands … where my father and myself were born and raised.”

  6. Maternal Connections to Land • Johnny Grant, Edmonton, AB 1889 “We looked around the country. The weather was fine. I thought I had never saw such a fine country. I wrote to my wife and told her that I had travelled in many places in my time, but I had never seen any country [as] fine as Edmonton, the country of my birth and that we must come to live here.”

  7. Stereotypes of Metis

  8. Madeleine Laframboise • Mother to the Laframboise family that stretches from Mackinac Island, MI to the Rocky Mountains, AB • “the half-Ottawa wife of a murdered French trapper, owned a string of trading posts in the Grand River Valley. Reputed to be no ordinary woman — probably for succeeding in an exclusively male trade in the pays d'enhaut or savage country” (A Snug Little Place/ Memories of Ada Michigan 1821 - 1930, Ada Historical Society/Jane Siegel, 1993, p. 23)

  9. Charlotte & Nancy Small • Sisters born at Ile a la Crosse, SK in late 18th century • Managed to remain connected and ended up at Williamstown, ON together by mid-19th century

  10. Reading Women into Family • Sister Communities • The Smalls, Williamstown, ON • The Bottineaus, Qu’Appelle Valley, SK • The McGillis’, Willow Bunch, SK • The Laframboise, Round Prairie, SK • Godmothers to the Nation • Louise Solomon • Pélagie Morin

  11. Knowing Who You Are

  12. Family as a Social Determinant of Health Security of the person

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