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BC Métis Federation BC Métis Federation Formed in 2011, BCMF has been in operation for 11 years. Hate speech, discrimination, and aggressive communication will not be tolerated.

The BC Métis Federation (BCMF) is a non-profit association that works with Métis communities to ensure the well-being of grassroots BCMF members. To learn more about our Board of Directors, Staff and Contractors or the Programs and Services available to members of the BC Metis Federation, please visit our website at www.bcmetis.com. Disclaimer: This page is for information sharing and creating a safe place for healthy dialogue. If anyone is found to be creating dissent or sharing discriminatory dialogue, they will be removed from this page.

The Otipemisiwak Métis Government has asked the Town of St. Paul, Alberta to restore the community's original name — St....
03/10/2026

The Otipemisiwak Métis Government has asked the Town of St. Paul, Alberta to restore the community's original name — St. Paul des Métis — and to install a traditional Red River cart at a town entrance.

The settlement was established in 1896; by the time the town incorporated in 1936, "des Métis" had been dropped. The Otipemisiwak Métis Government wrote to the mayor and council in May. Council accepted the letter as information, and two further letters went unanswered.

"I've heard more from media," said Grant Lacombe, Secretary of Culture and Harvesting with the Otipemisiwak Métis Government. "I have not had one conversation with the mayor and town council. No return of my letters. Nothing."

Under Alberta's Municipal Government Act a municipality can request a name change, but the province decides. Watch APTN's report via the link at https://bio.site/bcmetis

Roughly 155 acres southeast of High Bluff, Manitoba have been in the Hourie family since 1859 — eight years before Confe...
02/10/2026

Roughly 155 acres southeast of High Bluff, Manitoba have been in the Hourie family since 1859 — eight years before Confederation, and longer than any other family farm in the province.

Philip and Euphemia Hourie settled the river lot; Philip took title from the Crown in 1875. Colin Hourie, the fourth generation to own it, lives there now with his wife Angela. A Métis flag flies by the house, and his great-grandfather's broadaxe — the one used to shape the logs of the first buildings — hangs on the wall.

"It's always been kind of a fact of life for me that I happen to be lucky enough to live on — and continue to live on — the same place that my family has for 167 years," Hourie said.

The farm was named Manitoba's Farm of the Century in 1970. Read more about the amazing history of this farm and the family in an indepth article from CTVNews. Find the link at https://bio.site/bcmetis

A chain curtain of Métis beadwork now drapes the facade of the former Bank of Montreal at Portage and Main — 85 feet wid...
01/10/2026

A chain curtain of Métis beadwork now drapes the facade of the former Bank of Montreal at Portage and Main — 85 feet wide, 32 feet high, and built from about 750,000 individually painted links that would run 14 kilometres laid end to end.

Designed by Jennine Krauchi and fabricated in Spain, it is pinned on rather than fixed into the 113-year-old stone. The building becomes the Red River Métis National Heritage Centre — La Plas Taanshi kaa-Ishipamachihoyaahk — opening late next year.

"There's two things in our culture that … almost disappeared, and that's our language and our beadwork," Krauchi said. "I want to be able to see young people going into the archives or going into the building itself and seeing our beadwork."

The chains are a nod to Louis Riel stepping on the surveyors' chain in 1869. The CBC article includes a video. Find the link at https://bio.site/bcmetis

September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—a day for all of us, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to ref...
30/09/2026

September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—a day for all of us, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to reflect on the lasting harm of colonization and residential schools, and on the healing still needed.

BCMF encourages everyone to take time to remember, to learn, and to consider their own part in advancing truth and reconciliation. One place to start: Decolonization and Me: Conversations about Healing a Nation and Ourselves, by Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Webstad and Métis scholar Kristy McLeod.

BCMF's offices will be closed Wednesday, September 30, and will reopen Thursday, October 1.

Winnipeg Métis animator Maxime Kornachuk's Where Our Flowers Grow had its world premiere at the Toronto International Fi...
30/09/2026

Winnipeg Métis animator Maxime Kornachuk's Where Our Flowers Grow had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 16.

The documentary is animated entirely in glass beadwork, placed frame by frame with a dental hook — the opening tapestry alone runs to roughly 2,300 beads, and a single flower took about an hour of work to yield half a second of film. It was one of five films chosen from more than 240 submissions for the NFB-TIFF REDEFINED program.

"There is not one way to be Métis. There's not one way to be Indigenous, point-blank period," Kornachuk said.

The film is free to stream on NFB platforms. Watch it via the link at https://bio.site/bcmetis

29/09/2026

Hopefully it's not already snowing where you are, but if it is (or when it does) you can say "y niizh" if you're asked about the weather. That's the Michif-French for "it is snowing."

28/09/2026

If it's raining outside, you can say "y moyl" if someone asks you about the weather. That's Michif-French for "it is raining".

Saskatchewan's Northwest Land Claim is set to return to the Court of King's Bench, likely in October, after the plaintif...
28/09/2026

Saskatchewan's Northwest Land Claim is set to return to the Court of King's Bench, likely in October, after the plaintiffs applied to lift a stay that has held since 2005.

Filed in 1994 by 34 Métis plaintiffs alongside Métis Nation-Saskatchewan and the Métis National Council, the claim covers roughly 120,000 square kilometres of northern Saskatchewan and Alberta — including Île-à-la-Crosse, Green Lake and Buffalo Narrows — and tests whether issuing scrip to individuals could extinguish collective Métis title.

"I mean, we're a land-based people. We have a strong connection to the land," said Gerald Morin, an original plaintiff and adviser to Métis Nation-Saskatchewan.

The 2005 stay followed a failure to disclose required documents; Métis Nation-Saskatchewan says that material was completed in 2025. Read more on Windspeaker.com via the link at https://bio.site/bcmetis

Métis Nation-Saskatchewan ran Sharing Our Story – One Dot at a Time in August, an intern-led workshop where Saskatoon-ar...
27/09/2026

Métis Nation-Saskatchewan ran Sharing Our Story – One Dot at a Time in August, an intern-led workshop where Saskatoon-area families built collaborative dot artwork, informed by the work of Leah Dorion and Christi Belcourt. The finished pieces went on show in a community gallery.

"It was exciting to see how positively the project was received, with participants expressing interest in seeing it become an annual program," said Paige Rolles, the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan summer intern who led the project.

It was one project out of a summer internship program that placed 32 post-secondary interns across Saskatchewan this year. Read more and see the work via the link at https://bio.site/bcmetis

27/09/2026

"Y vaant" is the Michif-French for "it is windy". Try it out the next time someone asks you about the weather on a windy day.

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