Putting Down Roots : Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community (FNCR 2026) Gwich'in David’s inspiration comes from his

David’s inspiration comes from his ancestors of the Tsimshian Tribe from Northern British Columbia and Southeast Alaska

Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui et Michel Jean

A profound thinker and writer

In stories like Stranger Danger

Bear will over the ice

Putting Down Roots : Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community (FNCR 2026) Gwich'in David’s inspiration comes from hisWritten by Cheryl Troupe, Mtis, from north central Saskatchewan and with a Foreword by Maria Campbell, a distinguished Metis author, playwright, filmmaker, and Elder. Centring kinship and the strength of women, Putting Down Roots reframes Mtis road allowance communities as sites of profound resistance and resilience, restoring Mtis life in places, times, and scholarship where it has been obscured by settler narratives. These communities were not