Bringing Metis Content Into the K-12 Classroom

Lucy Delgado (she/they) is a two-spirit Metis woman from Winnipeg and a citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation, with ancestral ties to St. Andrews and St. Johns, Manitoba. Lucy is the Canada Research Chair in Michif and Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer Education as Wellness and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.Lucy was named to CBC Manitoba's Top 40 Under 40, and she is actively involved in the Two-Spirit Michif Local of the Manitoba Metis Federation. A longtime community organizer, Lucy has been involved in initiatives such as Red Rising Magazine and Red Rising Education, 13 Fires, and the Mamawi Project and advocates for Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer Metis peoples in a variety of spaces, from academia to the United Nations. Laura Forsythe (she/they) is a Michif Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg. With seven co-edited collections and as co-founding editor of Pawaatamihk: Journal of Metis Thinkers and the Canadian Journal of Indigenous Studies, Forsythe has helped lift up Indigenous scholars' works for over a decade. She is a citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation, the official democratic and self-governing political representation of the Red River Metis. Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cyr lines. Her ancestors worked for the Northwest and Hudson's Bay Companies, fought in the Victory of Frog Plain, and owned Lot 31, the site of a contemporary Metis space called Pakan Town. Jennifer Markides (she/her) is a member of the Metis Nation of Alberta and a Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor in Curriculum and Learning with the Werklund School of Education and the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. She received the 2021 Dissertation Award from the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies for her doctoral study, titled "Wisdom and Well-being Post-Disaster: Stories Told by Youth," and was given an Outstanding Indigenous Scholar/Researcher Award in 2021 from the Indigenous Inquiries Circle. Jennifer's research focuses on the holistic well-being of youth and Indigenous education, towards systemic change and reconciliatory action. She prioritizes community-engaged partnerships, where the research is responsive to the needs, interests, and knowledges of communities. She utilizes Indigenous research methodologies, emancipatory pedagogies, and arts-based approaches in her scholarship.

Foreword: Realizing Self-Determination Through Metis Education: Creating a Sense of Classroom Belonging for Metis Students and Their Families Introduction Part I: Lesson Plans Section A: Land Lesson Plan 1: Exploring Metis Relationships with Land Through the Seasons Lesson Plan 2: Visiting with the Land Section B: Important Metis People, Places, and Events Plan de lecon 3 : Se (re)connecter grace au perlage : les enseignements de Cecile Lesson Plan 4: Nan McKay: Finding Strength Lesson Plan 5: Metis Soldiers and the Battle of Hong Kong Lesson Plan 6: Rooster Town Remembrance Walk Section C: Governance Lesson Plan 7: Metis Governance: Past and Present Lesson Plan 8: Comparing and Contrasting the Manitoba Act as a Metis Treaty Lesson Plan 9: Examples of Fur Trade Networks and Metis Movement Patterns Lesson Plan 10: Charting the Hearth: Home Spaces and Material Culture of the Metis Nation Through Cultural Geography and the Case Study Method Section D: Music, Language, and Games Lesson Plan 11: Cultivating Michif/Metis Knowledge Through Reading Comprehension Lesson Plan 12: Rabbit Dance Mini-Unit Lesson Plan 13: Soundscape Composition: Creating the Music of the Land Lesson Plan 14: Metis Version of the "Amazing Race" Lesson Plan 15: Bougie Bannock Part II: Content Resources Content Resource 1: Baanak La Galet di Rita Flamand Content Resource 2: Metis Interpreters of the Numbered Treaties Content Resource 3: Metis Families Part III: Supplementary Learning and Next Steps Metis Resource List Contributor Biographies Index

"Finally! A print book version of teacher-friendly lessons and resources that are Metis-specific. This collection of lessons provides engaging learning opportunities to support K-12 curricula across Canada."-Erin Reid, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Indigenous Knowledge, Education, Research, and Applied Studies, University of Prince Edward Island