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As an investigative historian I have always wanted to research these teachers, priests, and nuns but I need names. I pay attention to these residential school stories but I never hear names of the people who strapped and beat these kids, who fed them unfit food, and abused them in general. I need some names.
The thing is is that the majority of Mexico Central and South America are proper 50-50 indigenous and European. The Canadian ones some of them look like 1/16 if that.
Just in case there is confusion. When she says shed is the length, this is not so. The SHED is the SPACE where she puts the weft threads across the long threads, (long called Warp). Passing the Weft thread to the left through the SHED. This is a lovely instruction for finger weaving which I have never tried as other videos left me confused. I must try this now. Thank you very much.
Fingerweaving? I've not heard this word before. I get that you're saying there's no loom. I think everyone else would just say "handwoven.". Unless I'm missing something about the technique. Fiver arts techniques are as intricate as they are diverse. I wonder where the cultural use of "fingerweaving" comes from. I am not quite getting the cultural significance of the term. But as you describe it in the video, its the symbolosm of the worn woven textiles that seems most culturally important. I'll watch the process again.
Hand woven cloth is done on a loom which is totally manual, therefore it is called handwoven. This is how all material was made for such a long time. So, as the word already exists for something specific it would be inaccurate to call it hand woven. These looms were often quite large, men could weave a wider piece of fabric as they had a longer reach.
@RobespierreThePoof For many years all fabric was woven on a wooden loom which was totally manual. The loom was as wide as a person could stretch out their arms to push the shuttle through the shed and back and forth. This was called hand made material. The same name could not be used for this new technique so finger weaving it was.
In the heart of Alberta, where the prairies wide, The Métis gather, with pride they stride, With the beat of the drum and the fiddle’s song, At Alberta Métis Fest, where we all belong. Alberta Métis Fest, where the spirit flies, With the dance and the song, under open skies, In the warmth of the fire, and the stories told, Alberta Métis Fest, where traditions unfold. With the jig of the dance and the joy in the air, We celebrate the culture, with love and care, From the elders’ wisdom to the children’s cheer, At Alberta Métis Fest, we hold all dear. In the colors of the sashes, and the sounds of the night, We find our connection, in the soft firelight, With each hand we hold, and each laugh we share, The Métis spirit, in the cool evening air. So here’s to the Métis, with their heritage bright, In the unity of the fest, we find our light, With the echo of history, and the promise of tomorrow, At Alberta Métis Fest, we share joy and sorrow.
Here I am as an Australian with tears in my eyes, the shame of a nation and to be honest the govt was doing the same to our Aboriginal and half breed children in Australia.
That's rich because you don't even recognize your own people in the MNA. I have never qualified for any programs nor was I granted harvester rights. Might want to clean up your own backyard first before throwing stones.
To bad you don’t recognize any other Metis in Canada. I am Metis and hold alberta Metis status. But As retired military veteran who decided to retire in Alberta, I lose all my Metis rights and I am not recognized as Metis with rights , by the Alberta Metis council .
Was very educational. Did not know there was so many varieties of Bees. The one question about the picture of a fly that looked like a bee really caught me. It really looked like a Bee.
The issue is east coast Natives and metis tend to care more about how much native you have in you before counting you in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba metis don't care about how "pure" you are
Love seeing the piece on the solar farm at Metis Crossing. It would be great to see a program to help MNA Citizens implement solar at home. Imagine the impact we could see as a nation if citizens could also directly contribute to climate change in this way.
Say no to Bill C53 as a rise of Fake Metis (The Fetis) trying to hurt the real Metis this is alllll wrong ...eastern Ontario are FRAUDs and hurt all real Metis Nation and First Nation ...wake up!!!!! Ontario NO METIS NATION Ansestors there using a First Nation ancestry....we don't we have Métis Ansestors WAKE UP!!!!layers of Metis Ansestors before we would say First Nation .......
