Métis Coming Together

This edited collection includes work by Métis thinkers both inside and outside academia, to help us convene a dynamic and generous thinking space to broaden our individual and collective understandings.

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/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.