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An inspiring personal journey into the contemporary world of the Metis people.
21/08/2022
The host of our series "I Am Metis" has a new song being released.
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/daO9RQ9eS?languageTag=en&cid=7829c933-dc82-4a17-8691-4b97e248a559 #/main
BIG NEWS! I have a brand new song coming out on AUGUST 26! You can pre-save the song right now! I have some fun things planned for this one, including a video game contest! Stay tuned for more details!
19/08/2022
05/08/2022
Congratulations to Robin and Adriel, the host and director of our series "I Am Metis", for receiving an Award of Merit from the INDIEfilm Festival. Great work. Will only help us sell this great series!
https://youtu.be/p01IZVnSqts
Official video for 'Memories' from the Album "Delicate Minds"Featuring Robin Cisek Directed by StrennethEffects by StrennethHair, makeup and wardrobe by Robi...
29/07/2022
I spoke with this man when researching the tv series I Am Metis. If the series moves forward we plan to do a sequence with him and his wife.
29/07/2022
Metis Crossing is the first major Métis cultural center in Alberta for Métis cultural interpretation, education, gatherings, and events. Book your interactive cultural experience and overnight stay online today!
27/07/2022
Just got this gem. I am helping a filmmaker in Siksika do a documentary on Crowfoot. This is my homework 😊
13/07/2022
I just finished this portrait today. I created it using oil based pencil crayons on gessoes paper. The gesso is heavy bodied.
30/06/2022
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/metis-manitoba-logo-design-papal-visit-1.6507044?fs=e&s=cl
Shaun Vincent was chosen to design the upcoming papal visit logo that will be seen during Pope Francis' travels from July 24 to 29.
25/06/2022
A Calgary organization is helping to preserve Indigenous languages by offering classes on speaking Blackfoot and Cree.
24/06/2022
Attended the memorial for our executive producer Nancy Brook. Producer, director, writer and author. Amazing woman. Full life. Great legacy. Let’s get this series made! It will be her last series.
23/06/2022
To celebrate Indigenous History Month, we’ve created an interactive map with sites of significance that are important to the ever-growing fabric of Alberta’s Treaty 6 territory.
24/05/2022
Robin Cisek new music release-
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/25O0aaT6E?languageTag=en&cid=7829c933-dc82-4a17-8691-4b97e248a559 #/main
17/05/2022
Dennis Allen has joined the team as Executive Producer/Writer.
Dennis Allen has been making award winning films about the north for twenty-five years. With a personal connection to all three northern territories; Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, Dennis has travelled thousands of kilometers to tell the stories of the vibrant and living cultures of his beloved north. A fearless director, Dennis gives his audience an honest and refreshing first hand account of life North of 60.
14/04/2022
North Fraser Metis Association, a Registered Charity Organization
08/04/2022
March Into Spring hosted by Freyjas.Haven, day 28, ladybug.
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08/04/2022
https://www.facebook.com/212371675472681/posts/5150823701627429/?d=n
Happy Tartan Day!
Many people don't realize that the Métis were not all exclusively of French and First Nations ancestry, there were Scottish Métis as well. Both the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company employed Scottish labourers, and much of the North West Company leadership, both in Montreal and at the forts, were of Scottish ancestry. In 1811, Lord Selkirk obtained a land grant covering much of what is now Southern Manitoba and parts of Southeaster Saskatchewan, Southwestern Ontario, Northeastern North Dakota, Northeastern South Dakota, and Northwestern Minnesota, which is an area five times the size of Scotland. His intention was to create a settlement for the displaced Scottish Highlanders who had their traditional lands stolen and homes destroyed. Many of the Highlanders settled in the Kildonan parish (having come from Strath of Kildonan in Sutherlandshire, Scotland). However, these were not the only ancestors of the Scottish Métis. There were many immigrants to the Red River Settlement from Orkney, who had been employed by the Hudson's Bay Company and retired to the English parishes North of the Forks. There were also traders and employees of Scottish ancestry spread across the Métis Homeland in the various forts, where they contributed to the ethnogenesis of the Métis Nation.
This picture is of James Isbister. His father was an Orkneyman employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, his mother was an Anglo-Métis, and he was born at Oxford House in 1833. James was fluent in English, Gaelic, Cree, Dene, and Michif, and he rose through the HBC ranks to become a clerk. He and his Anglo-Métis wife settled to farm on lower North Saskatchewan River in 1862, and they were the first settlers in the area that became known as the Isbister Settlement. Isbister Settlement would be renamed Prince Albert in 1866 by a missionary. Isbister’s rightful claim to be the founding father of Prince Albert has largely been overlooked and credit given to that missionary instead.
James Isbister would play an important role in the events at Batoche. He was one of the four delegates sent to Montana to speak with Riel and implore him to return to Canada to lead the fight again for the Métis cause. Isbister worked closely with Riel after he returned to Canada, but like many of the other Anglo-Métis of the area, he would ultimately distance himself from the movement when the tensions erupted into violence. After 1885, Isbister would fade into relative obscurity, though he remained active in the Anglican Church and was involved with parish activities. For a brief period in the 1880s, however, he had been the most important leader of the Anglo-Métis. He was a driving force in uniting the Anglo-Métis and the French Métis in the early events at Batoche and the South Branch Settlement communities, perhaps in the process sowing the seeds of the unified Métis Nation that we have today.
Tartan Day is celebrated every year on April 6, in honour of the Declaration of Arbroath that was signed on April 6, 1320. This pivotal document was the Scottish declaration of independence, issued as a letter to Pope John XXII, in which the Scottish barons and communities asked the Pope to recognize Scotland's independence and acknowledge Robert the Bruce as the country's lawful king.
Isbister is a sept of the Clan Sinclair and hails from the Orkney Islands off the North Coast of Scotland. The tartan depicted here is the Sinclair Hunting Tartan (it was designed by the Sobieski Stewarts). Let's take a moment to celebrate the Scottish contributions to our Métis identity, languages, culture, and values.
25/03/2022
Please join Indigenous Experiences, producers of the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival and operators of Mādahòkì Farm in Ottawa’s greenbelt to celebrate the Spring Season in the context of Indigenous culture.
21/03/2022
Metis Crossing
17/03/2022
Give a gift with meaning
14/03/2022
March Into Spring Challenge by Freyjas.Haven, Day 13, primrose.
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07/03/2022
Day6 crocus of the Freyjas.Haven March into spring challenge.
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03/03/2022
We will be attending the National Indigenous Tourism Conference next week, March 8-10 in Calgary.
https://indigenoustourism.ca/events/national-indigenous-tourism-conference-nitc/
Join ITAC for a focused conversation on how the Indigenous tourism sector reunites and begins to rebuild from the impacts of COVID-19.
03/03/2022
I am Kamamak, an Alberta-based, indigenous artist, singer, dancer, performer, and facilitator. I work across in Canada to share my Cree art and culture.
03/03/2022
I did this tulip and bee for day 1 & day 2 of the March into Spring Challenge 2022.
01/03/2022
This is the second portrait I have done in watercolour. I have done quite a few in acrylic. I think my watercolour portraits have improved.
28/02/2022
My credentials.
26/02/2022
Today, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Bill Loutitt, the CEO of the McMurray Métis, and discussing the issues that matter to his community.
I have known Bill for so long that I can't actually remember a time when I didn't know him. He is one of the pillars of Fort McMurray.
26/02/2022
There are so many varieties of sunflowers. This was an exercise to create glass as in the vase.
20/02/2022
Metis Story Time (for 3-9 years), February 18, 1:00-2:30 pm, with Felice Gladue of Metis Alive.
Join Felice as she brings '...Metis history, culture, traditional skills, music & dance ALIVE with multi-sensory & interactive learning experiences...'
Metis ALIVE
Register at https://bit.ly/3KY9EPk
17/02/2022
Bachelor’s Buttons used to surround my grandmothers vegetable garden. I was amazed by how tall they could grow. I love how a painting can spart memories from the past.
10/02/2022
CAHS needs to run this again!
06/02/2022
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/metis-beading-fashion-small-business-1.6338920
Jessie Pruden's small beading business has taken off, and now she is heading to Paris Fashion week to show off her beaded earring designs.
26/01/2022
My interest in the Metis people goes back to the time I paddled from Thunderbay to Winnipeg in fur trade canoes following the old Voyageur route. That's me at 15, standing at the far right, replete with Metis/Voyageur sash. This is a still from the film "Again the Voyageurs" that was made on the trip. According to the filmmaker, I have the only remaining copy. You can watch it here "https://youtu.be/yiKWehrA9ng"
21/01/2022
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20/01/2022
Many people want to know more about the series. First of all, the series is in development. We will be pitching to broadcasters soon. But before that can happen, we need to get support from the community. So we encourage people to share this page with your network. We will be reaching out indigenous tourism groups, historical groups, government tourism agencies and Metis organizations. If you want to help, call me at 403-598-3301 or email [email protected].
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