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“We’ve been told when we’ve met with Elders before that we really need to be putting Cree into our work and so that’s what we’ve been doing.”

#Indigenous #Métis #music #women #composers #orchestra #Toronto #HearingherVoice

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/new-work-metis-composer-karen-sunabacka-be-performed-tafelmusik-hearing-her

New work from Métis composer Karen Sunabacka to be performed by Tafelmusik at Hearing Her Voice

Karen Sunabacka, a Métis composer, will premiere a commissioned work at the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra’s Hearing Her Voice performances from April 30 to May 3 at the Jeanne Lamon Hall in Toronto.“This piece has been a really fun project to work on, and I’m just really honoured that Tafelmusik asked me to write the piece,” Sunabacka said.Her work, titled nitatisipwētānān: We are Leaving, is set to text written by her mother Joyce Clouston. It’s rooted in Métis intergenerational collaboration and storytelling.

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Marieke Baan 1d ago

De integratie van METIS in Leiden (een van de eerste instrumenten op de Extremely Large Telescope) gaat ook gewoon door #METIS #ELT

Rachel W.1d ago

I've experienced this many times. I'm proud to have come from a long line of strong, powerful women, and to have grown up in a #Matriarchy .

#ancestors
#metis
#ikwe
#metiswoman
#Indigenous #firstnations
#feminist #women #family #ancestry

Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada [Unofficial]3d ago

First Nations raise concerns as Métis self-government treaty advances in Parliament

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11817158/metis-self-governance-treaty-first-nations-opposed/

CBC Indigenous 5d ago

Assembly of First Nations call for withdrawal of Red River Métis self-government bill
The Assembly of First Nations is calling for the withdrawal of a federal government bill that would recognize the right to self-government of the Red River Métis, in its second reading in the House of Commons.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/afn-mmf-self-government-treaty-9.7174941?cmp=rss

Windspeaker.com 6d ago

“We made the first round of the tendering process, which was quite a rigorous exercise in its own right. But we're quite confident…”

#Indigenous #Métis #energy #Manitoba #wind

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/metis-wind-energy-project-waiting-green-light

Métis wind energy project waiting for the green light

Officials with the Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF) hope to get the go-ahead in the coming months to continue plans on a $500-million wind project.To meet increasing electricity demands, Manitoba Hydro issued a call in 2024 for proposals that would boost the province’s energy generating sources. The MMF with their partners developed a submission for the 200-megawatt wind energy project they call Fleury Winds, which would generate sufficient energy to power 50,000 homes.Manitoba Hydro has established a July 6 deadline for proposals.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown Apr 22

Frances Widdowson Dedicates Her Life to Denying Residential Indian School Survivors, Then Calls Herself the Victim | 🔗 https://brennan.day/frances-widdowson-dedicates-her-life-to-denying-residential-indian-school-survivors-then-calls-herself-the-victim/

#SocialCommentary #CulturalCriticism #Métis #Philosophy #MentalHealth

Bradley 🇨🇦Apr 22

https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/45-1/c-21
The second reading in parliament of the Red River Metis Treaty happens tomorrow! #RedRiverMetis #Metis #Canada #Indigenous

Windspeaker.com Apr 20

“A lot of people introduce themselves in #Michif now.... I know they're not fluent… but people are proud of what they can say.”

#Indigenous #language #Métis #children #books #music

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/around-bonfire-group-listened-fiddle-was-tuned-distance-and-it-became-best

Around a bonfire a group listened as a fiddle was tuned in the distance and it became The Best Gift Ever

An incident that happened approximately 25 years ago is the focus of Michif writer Wilfred Burton’s latest children’s book The Best Gift Ever.At the time a teacher for the Métis-specific Saskatchewan Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP) at the University of Regina, one of Burton’s students surprised her grandfather—and everybody else—at a university outing in the Qu’Appelle Valley.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown Apr 20

How and Why I Believe in God: The Ballad of Tragic Theism | 🔗 https://brennan.day/how-and-why-i-believe-in-god-the-ballad-of-tragic-theism/

#PersonalEssay #Theology #Christianity #Buddhism #Spirituality #Philosophy #Métis

How and Why I Believe in God: The Ballad of Tragic Theism

My testimony, from Dawkins on an iPod Shuffle down a back alley, through Buddhist libraries and a children's hospice, to Matthew's Gospel in a break room chair. My case for tragic theism: a God who creates, risks, makes mistakes, grieves them, and does not stop.

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