Métis Methodologies

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, 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.

“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.”

• Part I: Métis Ways of Knowing: Transforming Research and PracticeChapter 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 ResearchChapter 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)