On this week’s episode of Roots and Hoots, our host is joined by local grassroots activist and community leader Gabrielle Fayant. Gabrielle is a proud Métis woman from the Fishing Lake Métis Settlement in Alberta. She is a co-founder of ​the Assembly of Seven Generations (A7G) and co-manager of Adaawewigamig, a social enterprise in Ottawa’s Byward Market​. Gabrielle shares her deep love for her family and her commitment to strengthening community ​and cultural connections for Indigenous youth in Ottawa.

Show Notes:

• Métis Settlements of Alberta
• Fishing Lake Métis Settlement
• Frog Lake First Nation
• Onion Lake Cree Nation
• Elizabeth Métis Settlement
• Métis Betterment Act (1938)
• Land Back
• Moosehide Tanning
• Aboriginal Healing Foundation (this URL includes free online access to their past publications)
• Intergenerational Trauma and Residential Schools

• The Métis jig
• The Métis fiddle
• Blake Desjarlais
• A7G
• Adaawewigamig
• Idle No More
• First Nations Child & Family Caring Society
• The Honourable Murray Sinclair
• Indigenous youth advisors CIRNAC, Minister Carolyn Bennett
• Call to Action # 66
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

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