Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/09/2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The effects of intergenerational trauma have resulted in the loss of identity, culture,
and language creating long-lasting and intergenerational effects that have influenced
notions of who Métis are as a people and nation. This presentation focuses on a
larger SSHRC project entitled We know who we are: Intergenerational understandings
of Métis identity and well-being using digital storytelling. Currently, there is a severe
underrepresentation of community-based participatory Métis research, thus creating
a lack of adequate, accurate and accessible data and information on Métis health and
well-being. With the elements of audio, photos, video, art, text, and music, participants
from this project have woven together stories of racism, poverty, isolation, as well as
their relational ties to people and the land. It is through the creation of digital storytelling
that we illustrate how the power of written, oral, and visual information can come
together to provide rich descriptions that traditional methods and methodologies are
unable to accomplish.