Lii Michif Niiyanaan Award
Jeannine Carrière and Christine Welsh have created this scholarship in the UVic School of Social Work in part with royalties from their film “Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis”.
Who are the Métis? In “Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis”, an ensemble of contemporary Métis voices attempt to answer that question by examining the unique history of Métis people in Canada and sharing their diverse perspectives on what it means to be Métis today. Featuring the voices of Métis elders, artists, activists and scholars, Lii Michif Niiyanaanis a love letter to the courage, determination and resilient spirit of the Métis nation and a call for all Canadians to embrace the richness of their shared history.
Dr. Jeannine Carrière is Métis and originally from the Red River area of southern Manitoba. She has been teaching at the 樱花影视 in the School of Social Work, Indigenous Specializations since 2005. Dr. Carrière has been a practitioner in Aboriginal child and family services for over thirty-five years and has conducted several research projects related to Métis child and family wellness, Indigenous adoptions and identity, and advancing Indigenous knowledges.
Christine Welsh (Producer, Writer) is Métis with roots in the historic Red River Settlement and the Qu’Appelle Valley of southern Saskatchewan. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor Emerita (Gender Studies) at the 樱花影视. Her films include “Women in the Shadows” (1991), “Keepers of the Fire” (1994), “The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters” (2000), and the NFB feature documentary “Finding Dawn” (NFB 2006), one of the earliest calls to action on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Her 1995 film “Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle” featured some of the first public testimony from survivors of Canada’s Indian residential school system and is now part of the permanent archive of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Who are the Métis? In “Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis”, an ensemble of contemporary Métis voices attempt to answer that question by examining the unique history of Métis people in Canada and sharing their diverse perspectives on what it means to be Métis today. Featuring the voices of Métis elders, artists, activists and scholars, Lii Michif Niiyanaanis a love letter to the courage, determination and resilient spirit of the Métis nation and a call for all Canadians to embrace the richness of their shared history.
Dr. Jeannine Carrière is Métis and originally from the Red River area of southern Manitoba. She has been teaching at the 樱花影视 in the School of Social Work, Indigenous Specializations since 2005. Dr. Carrière has been a practitioner in Aboriginal child and family services for over thirty-five years and has conducted several research projects related to Métis child and family wellness, Indigenous adoptions and identity, and advancing Indigenous knowledges.
Christine Welsh (Producer, Writer) is Métis with roots in the historic Red River Settlement and the Qu’Appelle Valley of southern Saskatchewan. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor Emerita (Gender Studies) at the 樱花影视. Her films include “Women in the Shadows” (1991), “Keepers of the Fire” (1994), “The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters” (2000), and the NFB feature documentary “Finding Dawn” (NFB 2006), one of the earliest calls to action on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Her 1995 film “Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle” featured some of the first public testimony from survivors of Canada’s Indian residential school system and is now part of the permanent archive of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.