Métis Methodologies

edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides

Foregrounded by Métis epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies, Métis Methodologies provides transformative frameworks for Métis research.

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About the book

An enriching and inviting collection, Métis Methodologies clarifies what makes Métis research methods distinct. Insightful and frank reflections on wide-ranging research applications guide readers toward rich research paradigms for ethical and relational scholarship on Métis life, kin, history, and homelands.

Positioned in the context of decolonial research, this collection argues that research undertaken by Métis scholars can and should reflect specific Métis experiences of colonization. This collection represents a groundbreaking contribution to Métis research methodologies. It offers a framework for conducting research in Métis contexts and serves as an accessible entry point for those interested in learning about Métis epistemology, ontology, and axiology. In response to a community request, this collection showcases Métis ways of knowing, being, and doing in research.

Through grounded examples in research projects on Michif language revitalization, land-based pedagogy, health research, digital storytelling, and literary criticism, readers will learn specific techniques for research in this important contribution to decolonial knowledge production and research methodologies.

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What people are saying

Niigaan Sinclair, author of Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
“Métis Methodologies is a master class in cutting-edge thought, fierce creativity, and intellectual sovereignty. It offers the reader an experience on how Métis knowledge keepers visit, sit at a kitchen table, and debate, and how a nation critically defines itself. Encyclopedic and exceptional in scope and research, this collection of Métis brilliance represents a turning point in the field and forges paths for future Métis thinkers.”

katherena vermette, author of several books, most recently the poetry collection procession
“Reading this book felt like healing. It felt like a good kitchen table visit with some of the smartest folks I know. Métis Methodologies is a thorough and accessible compendium of Métis approaches to research and scholarship, and a beautiful meeting and sharing of ideas and histories. Chi Maarsii, cousins.”

Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Starr Minthorn, Ph.D. (Kiowa/Apache/Nez Perce/Umatilla/Assiniboine), University of Oklahoma
“Métis Methodologies is a powerful storying by Métis scholars who carry the stories and teachings of their Ancestors and communities in academic and communal spaces. This is an inspiring cultivation of contributors and Métis ways for others to look to and learn from.”

Verna St. Denis, University of Saskatchewan
“This collection honours the diverse voices and lived experiences of Métis scholars, rooted in the unique realities of their communities. It reflects our shared and distinct knowledges, challenges, and hopes across generations. Grounded in relationality, accountability, resistance, revival, and celebration, this collection speaks to the strength and continuity of Métis identity.”

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Authors

Laura Forsythe

Laura Forsythe, PhD, has helped lift up Indigenous scholars' work for over a decade as co-editor of seven collections, co-founder of the Metis Thinkers Network, editor of the Canadian Journal of Indigenous Studies, and member of the circle of editors of Pawaatamihk: Journal of Metis Thinkers. 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 Métis space called Pakan Town.

Jennifer Markides

Jennifer Markides, PhD, is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta under the Otipemisiwak Métis Government, SSHRC Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Youth Well-Being and Education, and associate professor in both the Werklund School of Education and Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Her community-based research focuses on the dreams, interests, needs, and holistic wellbeing of Indigenous youth in locations in Alberta and the Yukon. Working together, the partnerships respond to the immediate goals and long-term visions of First Nations and Métis communities. Her ancestral Métis kin are the McKay, Favel, Ballenden/Ballendine, Linklater, and McDermott/MacDermott families, with Scrip records and connections to Red River. She honours her ongoing commitments of learning, relationship-building, and service to Métis people, communities, and organizations through her academic work and personal life.

Part I: Métis Ways of Knowing: Transforming Research and Practice
Chapter 1:: Evolution of a Métis Research Methodology Over Fifteen Years (Chantal Fiola)
Chapter 2:: Intertwined Michif Methodology: Métis-Specific Research (Laura Forsythe)
Chapter 3:: Developing a Red River Métis Methodology Through Relationality for Health Research (Michelle Driedger and Josee LaVallee)
Chapter 4:: Whips and Wallows: Approaches in Métis Literary Criticism (Matthew Tétreault)
Chapter 5:: Methods in Motion: Walking-with Indigenous and Western approaches as Métis methodology (Lydia Toorenburgh)
Part II: Honoring Métis Values: Ethical Approaches to Research
Chapter 6:: Aunty Ethics: Métis Perspectives on Ethics, Research, and Life in the Academy (Sherry Farrell Racette, Beverly Cardinal, Allyson Stevenson, Merelda Fiddler-Potter, & Emily Grafton)
Chapter 7:: Research within Métis Community Work: Methodological tensions and possibilities in a Two-Spirit Michif research ethic (Lucy Delgado)
Chapter 8:: Being a Good Relative in Language Reclamation Research (Russ Fayant and Melanie Griffith Brice)
Chapter 9:: La Vayritii Wiihtamakayhk: Relational and Ethical Considerations in Using Digital Storytelling as Métis Methodology (Amanda LaVallee and Yvonne Poitras Pratt)