Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers

A Review of Stella Welcome to Your Doodem

Meghan Young — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Pawaatamihk Answering the Call for Métis-Specific Scholarship

Laura Forsythe — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Artist Feature - Tim Moore

Cathy Mattes — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Metis Living

Katherine Burelle — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

French-Michif

Meghan Young — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

there is room.

Erynne Gilpin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Ashee

Victoria Perrie — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Absolute Refusal

Danielle Lussier — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

This poem, in two parts, engages in a practice the author describes as “reading the beads.” The beadwork, titled “Absolute Refusal,” holds layers of stories, and can be read both forward and back – from our roots as a People to our hope for future generations.

The Stone in Your Soul

aron skworchinski — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Pakoshayimoohk/Hope, in steel

Danielle Lussier — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Wîpinâhwasowin

Anna Corrigal Flaminio, Leah Dorion — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500

The Metis women research team engaged in a pre research project grounded in the Cree-Metis concept of wîpinâhwasowin meaning ‘peace offering’. The Research Team consisted of two Metis women, Dr. Anna Corrigal Flaminio, and Metis Scholar and Artist, Leah Marie Dorion. We enacted the Metis-specific visiting method of kiyokewin/ keeoukaywin and Metis land-based methods, involving offerings tea, berries, tobacco to land and ancestors. The researchers enacted the method of sitting on the Earth with our relatives: mâmawapôwin achiôma, ni-wahômâkanak(sitting together here with my relatives). We explored ways Metis women hold the role of peacemaker of ancestral graves in their communities.

The Red River Jig Family Network

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500

In this article, we introduce the Red River Jig Family Network project and invite readers to join us in our conversations about Métis dance and music. We ask, what can a Métis-led and Métis-centred re-search project about Métis music and dance look like? And more specifically, what does the Red River Jig teach us about Métis approaches to re-search with and about Métis people and/or practices? In so doing, we are adding to a growing body of re-search that examines what it means to do re-search from a Métis perspective.

Coming Home Through Métis Research

Allyson Stevenson — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

In this reprint of a chapter from Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties' Scholarship, Allyson Stevenson recounts the journey she has taken into and through Métis research, and the pivotal scholars and community influences that have led her to her own academic work.

The Métis Nation, Epistemic Injustice, and Self-Indigenization

Kurtis Boyer, Paul Simard Smith — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500

This paper considers epistemic dimensions of injustices associated with settlers self-indigenization through false claims to being Métis. First, we provide an analytic characterization of the act of self-indigenization. Afterwards we spell out how confusions surrounding the meaning of the term ‘Métis’ generate lacunae in the social imagination of the dominant society in Canada. These lacunae make it more difficult for Métis people to explain to the dominant society why claims based on self-identification alone are inadequate bases upon which to claim to be Métis. Finally, we highlighting steps taken by the Métis Nation to assert their identity through citizenship registries.

La Chanson Du Riel

Carly Lawton — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

This is a story about Métis relations, oral history, and Louis Riel, however, I would not have this story to share if not for Ron Burwash, his grandma, his family, and their Métis relations; therefore it is also a story about them. Kichi kinanaskomitin (big thanks) to Elder Ron Burwash for gifting me with the French and English translation of La Chanson Du Riel and his time in conversation about its history and significance. I will tell the story of Riel’s song as Elder Ron has told it to me. In synthesizing how this song came to me, I will also express the significance and validity of oral history and the importance of intergenerational transmission of history and culture in the Métis context.

Metis Relationality of lii lway di la tayr through the teachings of interconnectedness and balance

Marika Schalla — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Exploring Métis Identity and Cultural Revival

Juliet Mackie, Alexandra Nordstrom — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500

In this paper, Métis artist and academic Juliet Mackie and Cree academic and curator Alexandra Nordstrom present a dialogue-driven exchange rooted in their collaboration on the exhibition, Matrilineal Memory (2023). They explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mackie’s role as a scholar, painter, and beadwork artist and examine the ways in which beadwork and portraiture can be used to explore the intricacies of Métis identity. A discussion on the revitalization of cultural and artistic practices emerges as they recount their joint and individual efforts in reclaiming cultural practices and knowledges, interweaving them into their daily lives, creative pursuits, and scholarly endeavors.