Métis expressions of spirituality and religion across the homeland : using community-led and collective mixed methods to strengthen the Métis Nation /
Métis Expressions of Spirituality and Religion Across the Homeland is a three-year mixed-methods Indigenous-led research project launched in 2023, involving a Métis research team across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Canada. The project aims to understand contemporary Métis determinations of s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2026.
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| Series: | SAGE research methods cases.
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| Summary: | Métis Expressions of Spirituality and Religion Across the Homeland is a three-year mixed-methods Indigenous-led research project launched in 2023, involving a Métis research team across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Canada. The project aims to understand contemporary Métis determinations of spirituality and religion to counter externally derived religious and racialized stereotypes.Using Métis-centered research methodologies of visiting and ceremonial protocol (medicines, smudge, spirit dishes, feasting, pipe, eagle fan brushing, prayer, mass), we organized and implemented community events in three historic Métis communities: St. Laurent, Manitoba, Lebret, Saskatchewan, and St. Albert, Alberta. We used mixed research methods including experiential learning--hearing family/community stories and celebrating culture (beading, Michif, fiddling, jigging, fish filleting, and Red River cart construction)--along with questionnaires, talking circles, and individual interviews. We also held community-academic symposia in regionally-adjacent universities at the Universities of Winnipeg (Manitoba), Regina (Saskatchewan), and Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta). Bridging community knowledges with the academy, Métis community representatives and scholars collaborated on the project's conception, design, methodology, execution, data management and analysis, and knowledge mobilization.These gatherings resulted in a co-created bundle that reflects the situated knowledge systems of each historic Métis community. Results unsettle racialized stereotypes and affirm a nuanced relational syncretism of Métis religion-spirituality situated in place/community informed by relationality and kinship. "Sacred visiting" emerged as a foundation of Métis identity linking our communities together as an Indigenous nation across the Métis Homeland(s). This partnership supports the reconstitution of ancestral ties, recognizes local knowledges, resists racialization, and contributes to the spiritual resurgence of the Métis Nation across the Métis Homeland. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781036244651 1036244652 |