Windspeaker.com1d ago

“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 Brown1d ago

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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Brennan Kenneth Brown6d ago

GRAIN ELEVATOR COUNTRY | 🔗 https://brennan.day/grain-elevator-country/

#PersonalEssay #RoadTrip #Masculinity #Prairie #FamilyRelationships #Métis

CBC Technology Science6d ago
This Métis woman grew a bountiful crop of tobacco in her yard, then gave it away
Julietta Sorensen Kass didn’t expect so many people to respond with interest to her social media post offering to gift tobacco she'd grown in her northwest Calgary yard for prayers and ceremonies. She says she's been blessed with connections and so much more in return.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tobacco-metis-crop-calgary-9.7163049?cmp=rss
CBC IndigenousApr 14
This Métis woman grew a bountiful crop of tobacco in her yard, then gave it away
Julietta Sorensen Kass didn’t expect so many people to respond with interest to her social media post offering to gift tobacco she'd grown in her northwest Calgary yard for prayers and ceremonies. She says she's been blessed with connections and so much more in return.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tobacco-metis-crop-calgary-9.7163049?cmp=rss
CBC Top StoriesApr 14
This Métis woman grew a bountiful crop of tobacco in her yard, then gave it away
Julietta Sorensen Kass didn’t expect so many people to respond with interest to her social media post offering to gift tobacco she'd grown in her northwest Calgary yard for prayers and ceremonies. She says she's been blessed with connections and so much more in return.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tobacco-metis-crop-calgary-9.7163049?cmp=rss
CBC CanadaApr 14
This Métis woman grew a bountiful crop of tobacco in her yard, then gave it away
Julietta Sorensen Kass didn’t expect so many people to respond with interest to her social media post offering to gift tobacco she'd grown in her northwest Calgary yard for prayers and ceremonies. She says she's been blessed with connections and so much more in return.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tobacco-metis-crop-calgary-9.7163049?cmp=rss
CBC CalgaryApr 14
This Métis woman grew a bountiful crop of tobacco in her yard, then gave it away
Julietta Sorensen Kass didn’t expect so many people to respond with interest to her social media post offering to gift tobacco she'd grown in her northwest Calgary yard for prayers and ceremonies. She says she's been blessed with connections and so much more in return.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tobacco-metis-crop-calgary-9.7163049?cmp=rss
CBC CanadaApr 14
10 years after landmark court decision, N.W.T. Métis leaders still waiting to see benefits
Bill Enge, former leader of the North Slave Métis Alliance, was elated when the Supreme Court of Canada found in 2016 that tens of thousands of Métis and non-status Indians were now under the jurisdiction of the federal government. A decade la...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/n-w-t-metis-leaders-still-waiting-for-programs-from-ottawa-10-years-after-landmark-supreme-court-decision-9.7162337?cmp=rss
CBC Top StoriesApr 14
10 years after landmark court decision, N.W.T. Métis leaders still waiting to see benefits
Bill Enge, former leader of the North Slave Métis Alliance, was elated when the Supreme Court of Canada found in 2016 that tens of thousands of Métis and non-status Indians were now under the jurisdiction of the federal government. A decade la...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/n-w-t-metis-leaders-still-waiting-for-programs-from-ottawa-10-years-after-landmark-supreme-court-decision-9.7162337?cmp=rss