Emerging Voices of Métis Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Leah Dorion
Description
Outlines the efforts being made to document the lives and contributions of Métis women.
Uses data from 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey to explore patterns of dimensions of health in the two populations and examine how they are affected by cultural and geographical contexts.
Chapter one from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 2, which is also vol. 4 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.
Photograph of a group of participants in the Northwest Resistance, from both sides. Left to Right: Constable Black, Louis Cochin, Inspector R.B.Deane, Alexis Andre, Beverly Robertson, Horse Child, Big Bear, Alexander Stewart, Poundmaker. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.