Events & Information For the Chartered Metis Community in Cranbrook
Saturday Feb 24, 2018 - Cranbrook BC
The Rocky Mountain Metis Association would like to announce the opening of their community office in Cranbrook. Located at the new Ground Floor co-working space at #100-131 7th Ave. S., this location will be home to our Metis Community Navigator staff.
“This is wonderful location” proclaimed Marilyn Taylor - Region 4 Director. “I’m very excited to see our Kootenay communities getting support to support this kind of capacity”. Jana Schulz - RMMA President said, “I’m very excited to be able to have this base and pleased to welcome Glen Holmgren as our Metis Community Navigator”. “His job will be to start drawing a map for our community on supports and services they can access, along with seeking out new opportunities”.
Office hours are not set yet but we will be posting all of that on our Facebook and website very soon. In addition some exciting news on some youth and elder consultation meetings and a tax return support program we have in place.
The Rocky Mountain Metis Association would like to announce the opening of their community office in Cranbrook. Located at the new Ground Floor co-working space at #100-131 7th Ave. S., this location will be home to our Metis Community Navigator staff.
“This is wonderful location” proclaimed Marilyn Taylor - Region 4 Director. “I’m very excited to see our Kootenay communities getting support to support this kind of capacity”. Jana Schulz - RMMA President said, “I’m very excited to be able to have this base and pleased to welcome Glen Holmgren as our Metis Community Navigator”. “His job will be to start drawing a map for our community on supports and services they can access, along with seeking out new opportunities”.
Office hours are not set yet but we will be posting all of that on our Facebook and website very soon. In addition some exciting news on some youth and elder consultation meetings and a tax return support program we have in place.
Louis Riel, July 4, 1885
My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.
Metis Culture and History
This page was created for the Metis Youth and community of the Cranbrook area to give them a place for information on coming cultural events and opportunities. This is a non-political site with a mind on growing pride in the Metis culture.
The Métis Nation emerged from within the Métis Nation Homeland during the seventeenth century as a result of the French and English fur trade. At that time, Canada did not exist as a country and the provincial governments we know today in western Canada would not exist for another 200 years. Marriages between European fur traders and First Nation women produced children of mixed ancestry, who eventually became known as Métis, Half-Breeds, or Country Born people. Establishing relationships with Aboriginal women gave fur traders valuable contacts with tribal communities, and tribal communities regular access to trade goods. The women were also able to teach the traders local languages, show them how to survive on the land and tend to domestic affairs such as preparing food, constructing shelters, and making clothing. Daughters born from these unions usually carried on traditional roles taught by their mothers. Sons grew up to enter the fur trade, become hunters, trappers, or canoemen. Those with schooling were able to become clerks or interpreters at the trading posts. The development of a unique Métis culture began to unfold.
The Métis Nation emerged from within the Métis Nation Homeland during the seventeenth century as a result of the French and English fur trade. At that time, Canada did not exist as a country and the provincial governments we know today in western Canada would not exist for another 200 years. Marriages between European fur traders and First Nation women produced children of mixed ancestry, who eventually became known as Métis, Half-Breeds, or Country Born people. Establishing relationships with Aboriginal women gave fur traders valuable contacts with tribal communities, and tribal communities regular access to trade goods. The women were also able to teach the traders local languages, show them how to survive on the land and tend to domestic affairs such as preparing food, constructing shelters, and making clothing. Daughters born from these unions usually carried on traditional roles taught by their mothers. Sons grew up to enter the fur trade, become hunters, trappers, or canoemen. Those with schooling were able to become clerks or interpreters at the trading posts. The development of a unique Métis culture began to unfold.
