Yvonne Boyer is a Michif with her Métis ancestral roots in the Red River. She was the associate director of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, a professor of law at the University of Ottawa, and is the author of Moving Aboriginal Health Forward: Discarding Canada's Legal Barriers. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2018. Larry Chartrand is a citizen of the Métis Nation (Michif), professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, and a former director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. He was the principal investigator for a SSHRC research project on Métis treaties that led to Métis Treaties in Canada: Past Realities and Present Promise.Contributors: Jonathan Anuik, Judith G. Bartlett, Laura-Lee Bellehumeur-Kearns, Curtis Breaton, Paul Chartrand, Leah Dorion, Nathalie Kermoal, Margaret Kress, Catherine Littlejohn, Tricia Logan, Yvonne Poitras Pratt, Allyson Stevenson, and Yvonne Vizina

• IntroductionPart 1: History, Identity, and Belonging 1 River Water Flows through Our Veins / Leah Dorion and Curtis Breaton2 What's a Métis, Anyway? / Catherine Littlejohn3 The Right to Self-Identify as Métis at School / Jonathan Anuik4 Ancestral Knowledge in a Contemporary World / Yvonne VizinaPart 2: Leadership and Relationship Building5 Fire Starters and Keepers / Laura-Lee Bellehumeur-Kearns6 Finding a Way around the Jurisdictional Gaps / Tricia Logan7 Navigating Troubled Political Waters for Better Housing / Nathalie Kermoal8 Demanding the Right to Care for Their Own Children / Allyson StevensonPart 3: Exercising Our Rights and Self-Determination9 Who Will Come to Bury You? / Paul Chartrand10 Wiichihiwayshinawn / Margaret Kress11 Stoking the Embers: A Story of Realizing Decolonizing Aims with the Métis through Media Agancy / Yvonne Poitras Pratt12 A Métis Woman's Journey of Discovery / Judith G. BartlettIndex

Yvonne Boyer is a Michif with her Métis ancestral roots in the Red River. She was the associate director of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, a professor of law at the University of Ottawa, and is the author of Moving Aboriginal Health Forward: Discarding Canada's Legal Barriers. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2018. Larry Chartrand is a citizen of the Métis Nation (Michif), professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, and a former director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. He was the principal investigator for a SSHRC research project on Métis treaties that led to Métis Treaties in Canada: Past Realities and Present Promise.Contributors: Jonathan Anuik, Judith G. Bartlett, Laura-Lee Bellehumeur-Kearns, Curtis Breaton, Paul Chartrand, Leah Dorion, Nathalie Kermoal, Margaret Kress, Catherine Littlejohn, Tricia Logan, Yvonne Poitras Pratt, Allyson Stevenson, and Yvonne Vizina

• IntroductionPart 1: History, Identity, and Belonging 1 River Water Flows through Our Veins / Leah Dorion and Curtis Breaton2 What's a Métis, Anyway? / Catherine Littlejohn3 The Right to Self-Identify as Métis at School / Jonathan Anuik4 Ancestral Knowledge in a Contemporary World / Yvonne VizinaPart 2: Leadership and Relationship Building5 Fire Starters and Keepers / Laura-Lee Bellehumeur-Kearns6 Finding a Way around the Jurisdictional Gaps / Tricia Logan7 Navigating Troubled Political Waters for Better Housing / Nathalie Kermoal8 Demanding the Right to Care for Their Own Children / Allyson StevensonPart 3: Exercising Our Rights and Self-Determination9 Who Will Come to Bury You? / Paul Chartrand10 Wiichihiwayshinawn / Margaret Kress11 Stoking the Embers: A Story of Realizing Decolonizing Aims with the Métis through Media Agancy / Yvonne Poitras Pratt12 A Métis Woman's Journey of Discovery / Judith G. BartlettIndex

Yvonne Boyer is a Michif with her Métis ancestral roots in the Red River. She was the associate director of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, a professor of law at the University of Ottawa, and is the author of Moving Aboriginal Health Forward: Discarding Canada's Legal Barriers. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2018. Larry Chartrand is a citizen of the Métis Nation (Michif), professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, and a former director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. He was the principal investigator for a SSHRC research project on Métis treaties that led to Métis Treaties in Canada: Past Realities and Present Promise.Contributors: Jonathan Anuik, Judith G. Bartlett, Laura-Lee Bellehumeur-Kearns, Curtis Breaton, Paul Chartrand, Leah Dorion, Nathalie Kermoal, Margaret Kress, Catherine Littlejohn, Tricia Logan, Yvonne Poitras Pratt, Allyson Stevenson, and Yvonne Vizina

• IntroductionPart 1: History, Identity, and Belonging 1 River Water Flows through Our Veins / Leah Dorion and Curtis Breaton2 What's a Métis, Anyway? / Catherine Littlejohn3 The Right to Self-Identify as Métis at School / Jonathan Anuik4 Ancestral Knowledge in a Contemporary World / Yvonne VizinaPart 2: Leadership and Relationship Building5 Fire Starters and Keepers / Laura-Lee Bellehumeur-Kearns6 Finding a Way around the Jurisdictional Gaps / Tricia Logan7 Navigating Troubled Political Waters for Better Housing / Nathalie Kermoal8 Demanding the Right to Care for Their Own Children / Allyson StevensonPart 3: Exercising Our Rights and Self-Determination9 Who Will Come to Bury You? / Paul Chartrand10 Wiichihiwayshinawn / Margaret Kress11 Stoking the Embers: A Story of Realizing Decolonizing Aims with the Métis through Media Agancy / Yvonne Poitras Pratt12 A Métis Woman's Journey of Discovery / Judith G. BartlettIndex