The Mamawi Project: Emergent Technologies as Waterways to the Métis Homeland

Lindsay DuPré, Métis (University of Toronto) and Lucy Fowler, Métis, (University of Saskatchewan)

Written by two emerging Métis scholars and collective members of The Mamawi Project, this paper presentation will explore how Indigenous concepts of relationship to place and kinship are evolving with emergent technologies. It will build on conversations about Métis nationhood by attending to the ways that Métis youth are rejecting harmful political leadership practices ,and are actively reimagining and participating in new forms of education and governance.