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The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

by Jean Teillet

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Reading for the 3rd time

read in August 2021

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" Overall I think this book should be read by everyone who lives in Canada, the USA or those who work with Indigenous people or are Indigenous people, around the world.

I think high school students would be able to handle this - especially the audio ve Overall I think this book should be read by everyone who lives in Canada, the USA or those who work with Indigenous people or are Indigenous people, around the world.

I think high school students would be able to handle this - especially the audio version. Hopefully our education system has graduated in knowledge about the Métis to be able to handle this book by grade 10-12.
First Nations - this book is helpful in understanding our relationship to each other in details.

I still can’t reconcile with Chapter 29 to - I think about Ch. 30 but maybe the leaders discussed figure less significantly in the author’s book because the future and how history will look back on some of those named and so called leaders, will be seen. I know it’s hard not to mention them but also, the caution in the retelling may not be as masked enough as it should be.

The Settlements - there was a bit of an abrupt ending to the current way of life and struggles of being a minority within a minority (perhaps like the Dene Métis) maybe. It is one of the first really good explanations of historic dealing between the province and the Métis who now form the settlements. I often beg for people to get to know more about the settlements in the context of the Métis.

The following is a personal note of experience (I’m Métis and worked with the nations and amongst the diversity of Métis);

I very much appreciated hearing about the diversity of the Métis across the lands because it’s so true. We are urban, rural, farmers, city dwellers, politicians, business leaders, variety of faiths, it was uplifting to be validated in the knowing that diversity exists and hearing it said aloud when it was politically drilled into heads that we are one nation and basically the diversity of our expressions was ridiculed internally to the point of driving identities to homogenous Métis identities.

The new threat of Fetis is real and glad it was addressed. I would have also still liked to have heard a little more about how the Métis women’s voices were involved politically to push the force, protect our nation in name? Covering up for our men, working the offices and phones and families and yelling at assemblies. The women to keep it all together, working hard at one or many jobs, farms, supporting political campaigns, still traveling to gatherings; rendezvous and pow wows, mtgs. I’m learning it can’t be assumed that women are being referred to or talked about when history is written. I did appreciate the earlier references of Métis women in historic contexts and their contributions during the Resistance.

The 60’s scoop - the trauma felt deeply by generations of unrecognized Métis day schools, missions and boarding schools and the effect that they’ve had on our families to present day.

The end came too quick and I would have sat through more of a current overview on the Métis today. Maybe there will be a part two. The best part is hearing the author’s voice. I don’t think I would have absorbed this in the same wat had I not listened to the audio version first. I’ve also gotten my dad on podcasts and audio books during his medical healing because normally he’s on the land. He’ll love this and think about where he was during all these events. ...more "

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