NinaWondering if any First Nations or Métis folks could answer a vocab question for me. I'm reading this article by a Métis genealogist and his Cree-Métis daughter talking about his experiences doing genealogy and archival research, and they use a term I haven't encountered before and that I can't find results for when I do a web search: "maskihkîyiskwêw" (They use it in this sentence: "She was a maskihkîyiskwêw and a midwife.")
Does anybody know what it means? There isn't any additional context and I'm curious now!
https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/kula/2021-v5-n1-kula06185/1079228ar/
(boosts welcome!)
Jo Dusepo 
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