Researching Métis Spirituality: Insights and the Work Ahead

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https://pawaatamihk.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/Pawaatamihk/article/view/32/18

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2023

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By way of introducing herself to the readers of Pawaatamihk, Dr Chantal Fiola, member of the Journal’s Circle of Editors, offers a brief summary of her fifteen years of research into Métis spirituality. She has been particularly interested in Métis relationships with traditional Indigenous ceremonies and has confirmed ̶ through oral history, archives, literature, and primary research ̶ that some Métis historically participated in Sundance, Midewiwin, and sweat lodge, among other ceremonies. Her research also points to a contemporary resurgence of traditional ceremony among Métis people. Below, she shares select key findings across her two books: Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality and Returning to Ceremony: Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities, and introduces her latest study, a national project titled, “Expressions of Métis Spirituality and Religion Across the Homeland.”