Metis
A letter to my first mother: You did not raise me but I consider you my mother still
‘I now realize I was never unwanted, but rather imperfectly loved by imperfect people,’ writes Brittany Penner to her birth mother
How ‘race-shifting’ explains the surge in the number of Métis in Eastern Canada
An increase in self-reported “Métis” people raises questions about which groups are authentic inheritors of Indigenous nationhood
One of the biggest mysteries in Metis history gets even more puzzling
Billyjo Delaronde stole and hid the Bell of Batoche—ripped from the Metis in 1885, and held in a legion—for 22 years before giving it up. Now, in a way, it’s missing again.
Celebrated Metis poet delivers poignant view of residential school life
Joan Crate’s novel Black Apple takes readers inside a 1940s Prairies school
Colleges promise to meld Indigenous learning into programming
About 40 schools have promised to hire more Indigenous staff and integrate Indigenous culture into the learning experience
Success, one student at a time
How universities are embracing the Aboriginal baby boom
As to the historical legacy of Louis Riel
Conservative MP Peter Goldring has managed today the rare feat of uniting the Liberal party and the Prime Minister’s Office in scorn.
Are we a Metis Nation?
Ever since he burst onto the philosophical scene in 1992 with Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, a somewhat overdramatic look at the evolution of the western mind, John Ralston Saul has been engaged in two quixotic intellectual projects: bashing the Enlightenment and trying to make sense of Canada. The conceit that buckles these two projects together is the notion that the search for the Canadian identity will come to an end only when we come to see that what justifies Canada, the reason Canada makes any sense at all, is that it is an experiment in counter-modernity…
Maclean’s Interview: John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul talks to Kate Fillion about racism, our ‘metis’ culture, and our elites’ inability to understand problems