The People Who Write Themselves

The People Who Write Themselves: Visiting with Métis Stories brings together established and emerging Métis scholars to celebrate Métis storytelling and peoplehood. Examining literary and family stories, this collection explores the need to cultivate Métis knowledge and culture, affirming the distinctness of thriving Métis kinscapes and communities. This book builds on Emma Laroque’s call in literary studies to “re-root the Métis with home (land), community, culture, and agency.”

Through stories and essays, this collection addresses the fractures, displacements, and losses that Métis people have endured while also attending with care to joys, spaces of love, and homecomings. Together, the Métis voices of this book offer a literary space for centring Métis peoples’ continued efforts to achieve cultural resurgence through storytelling.