2 What’s a Métis, Anyway?

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. History, Identity, and Belonging
6. River Water Flows through Our Veins 13
7. What’s a Métis, Anyway? 29
8. The Right to Self-Identify as Métis at School 50
9. Ancestral Knowledge in a Contemporary World 66
10. Leadership and Relationship Building
11. Fire Starters and Keepers 89
12. Finding a Way around the Jurisdictional Gaps 117
13. Navigating Troubled Political Waters for Better Housing 131
14. Demanding the Right to Care for Their Own Children 148
15. Exercising Our Rights and Self-Determination
16. Who Will Come to Bury You? 176
17. Wiichihiwayshinawn 187
18. Stoking the Embers 216
19. A Métis Woman’s Journey of Discovery 234
20. Contributors 257
21. Index 263