Experience Métis culture and crafts in the Canada's Alberta province
“We didn’t keep days, we kept stories,” begins Ly Raine, a buxom Cree woman with shaved hair and a beaded belt tethered around her waist. She’s a custodian at Fort Edmonton Park’s Indigenous People’s Experience, which explains Canada’s First Nation cultures. It opened in 2021. “This space is such a big move toward reconciliation. From inception to delivery, more than 50 indigenous voices – from elders to historians – were consulted, from the architecture to the artwork,” she adds.
It sits on a section of the Old Victoria Trail, part of a trading route that ran from Fort Edmonton to Fort Garry in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Known as Otipemisiwak, or ‘The People Who Own Themselves’, the Métis have mixed European and First Nation ancestry — born from unions between European fur traders and First Nation women in the 17th century. Today, they number around 587,000. They have their own laws, official language , faith and music.
Two moose-hair tufts, framed by two porcupine quills, are sewn neatly onto the sac à feu. “We place a great deal of unspoken pride in the quality of our workmanship,” says Lilyrose with a smile. “I teach it, so if one in a hundred carries it on, the skill survives.”
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