'Dancing is healing': Courtney-Dawn Anaquod models mental health through Métis jigging

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'Dancing is healing': Courtney-Dawn Anaquod models mental health through Métis jigging
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From teaching Saskatoon high school students to performing at New York Fashion Week, Anaquod uses Métis jigging to connect with others.

Photos from the event show her on the runway — about to share her traditional dance with the crowd.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc. | 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4 | 416-383-2300A welcome email is on its way.

Anaquod’s passion for Métis jigging has her incorporating it into everything she does, wherever she can. “I do tell a lot of students that … they have their own unique dance style. Nobody’s going to dance the same. There’s no right or wrong way.”“I’m paving those ways for our younger generations, just like our ancestors paved the way for us.”

Donny, her father, says Anaquod has become a positive role model for so many, especially in her method of teaching through learning.Article content “I didn’t get here over one night … Everything that I went through, those were all my stepping stones to all of the opportunities that I had taken in my life.”Article content

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