ABSTRACT
Modern historians increasingly acknowledge that the majority of early writings on the Metis adopted a strongly biased and negative positioning from those invested in the colonial cause. Contemporary authors of Metis ancestry delve into an array of specialized issues such as Indigenous history, legal rights recognition, identity politics, residential school experiences, poetry, collaborative community projects, Indigenization in higher education, Aboriginal ethnogenesis, and personal memoirs to bring an insider’s understanding of Metis issues to their readers. While the origin stories of the Metis are gaining richness and greater validity through accounts such as the one Devine and Macdougall offer, it is also true that more work lies ahead to tell the full stories of the Metis people. As Metis works emerged in both secular and scholarly forms, one story of the Metis gained national attention for its influential effort to reclaim the Metis voice and experience from an insider perspective.
