Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality - Softcover

Fiola, Chantal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887557708 ISBN 13: 9780887557705

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press, 2015

Synopsis

Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Métis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies. Using a methodology rooted in an Indigenous world view, Fiola interviews eighteen people with Métis ancestry, or an historic familial connection to the Red River Métis, who participate in Anishinaabe ceremonies, sharing stories about family history, self-identification, and their relationships with Aboriginal and Eurocanadian cultures and spiritualities.

About this title

About the Author:

Chantal Fiola is Métis Anishinaabe-Kwe from the Red River region of Manitoba. She teaches Native Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Review:

“Shows a fidelity to an Indigenous methodology and is an exemplar for how we as historians of education need to revise the narrative to place learners at the centre. We need to hear from Métis learners as they set new points of reference in the history of Indigenous education.” (Jonathan Anuik Historical Studies in Education)

“A seminal work of truly impressive scholarship, Rekindling the Sacred Fire is exceptionally well written, organized and presented. Informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking.” (Marilyn Dumont Midwest Book Review)

"A great book in an under researched field." (Publishers' Weekly)

“Firmly pushes Métis studies forward in ways that intimately integrate Métis sovereignty in ongoing dialogue with those of the Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe, including the Saulteaux, Odawa, and Potawatomi) and Nêhiyawak (Cree).” (Dylan A. T. Miner)

"Apart from the author’s personal expose on her experience as a Métis person, Chantal reconfirms the real impact that the historical experience of living among the Anishinaabe had upon not only the material culture of her people, but also on how many of them came to view the world." (Blair Stonechild 49th Shelf)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0887557708
• ISBN 13: 9780887557705
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264