This collection foregrounds experiences of women and religion in diaspora; I was invited to provide an Indigenous perspective. As a Métis woman who is first-degree Midewiwin1 and participates regu-larly in ceremonies, I was excited to focus on, for example, Métis women returning to the Midewiwin lodge. Elsewhere, I examine Red River Métis spirituality (Fiola, forthcoming); now, I had an opportu-nity to focus squarely on Métis women. However, I quickly realized that degree of specificity may be premature. Except my books, Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality(2015) and Returning to Ceremony: Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities (forthcoming), almost nothing has been published regarding Métis people going to ceremony, never mind a women-centred analysis that considers diasporic discourse. Discussing Indigenous women and spirituality in diaspora cannot be disconnected from the larger history of colonization. Considering Métis women returning to the Midewiwin lodge only makes sense when we under–stand Métis dispossession from our home territories, forced separation from our First Nations relatives, systematic devaluation of Indigenous women, forced Christianization, and internalization of colonial hier–archies of indigeneity. Therefore, this chapter examines such contexts and lays some of the necessary groundwork in the hopes of ins