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- Title
Comment fhrter avec la modernité pour conforter son identité Projet éducatif d'une communauté métisse au Manitoba.
- Authors
Martin, Thibault; Capitaine, Brieg
- Abstract
In 1994, a francophone school was established in the heart of the Métis community of St Laurent, Manitoba. The creation of the school institutionalized a pre-existing divide between the Francophone and Anglophone Métis populations. This article provides an analysis of the educational project developed by the Francophone Métis community. We will see that the project is a cultural and political enterprise, which aims both to preserve the traditional vernacular of the Métis, the Michif language, as well as to reclaim the community's capacity for self-determination. The pedagogical model of the project integrates elements of modern knowledge and traditional Aboriginal knowledge, and aims to strengthen social ties both between elders and youth and between the school and the larger community. The theoretical foundations of this model are part of a trend observable in a number of Aboriginal communities. However the specific feature of the project is in the strategic alliance forged between the Métis and Franco-Manitoban communities and, beyond this alliance, in attempts at connecting the Métis with global francophone networks.
- Subjects
MANITOBA; METIS; ENGLISH-speaking Canadians; MICHIF language; INDIGENOUS peoples; FRENCH-speaking North America
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2005, Vol 35, Issue 3, p49
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1081920ar