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DESCRIPTION:MISC and the Indigenous Studies Program invite you to a film sc
 reening of the documentary\, “Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis” with spe
 cial guest\, Christine Welsh\, producer and writer. The film will be follo
 wed by a panel discussion with Christine Welsh and Scott Berthelette\, mod
 erated by Les Sabiston\, an audience Q&A\, and an informal reception.\n	The
  event is free but registration is mandatory via this link.\n\nAbout the f
 ilm:\n	Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis - Contemporary Métis voices speak
 ing their truth.\n	In this one-hour documentary\, Métis elders\, artists\, 
 activists and scholars examine the unique history of Métis people in Canad
 a and share their diverse perspectives on what it means to be Métis today.
  Lii Michif Niiyanaan is a love letter to the courage\, determination and 
 resilient spirit of the Métis nation and a call for all Canadians to embra
 ce the richness of their shared history.\n\n\n	Christine Welsh (Producer\, 
 Writer) is Métis with roots in the historic Red River Settlement and the Q
 u’Appelle Valley of southern Saskatchewan. She is an award-winning documen
 tary filmmaker whose films include Women in the Shadows (1991)\, Keepers o
 f the Fire (1994)\, The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters (2000)\, and th
 e NFB feature documentary Finding Dawn (NFB 2006)\, one of the earliest ca
 lls to action on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Can
 ada. Her 1995 film Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle (with Peter 
 C. Campbell) featured some of the first public testimony from survivors of
  Canada’s Indian residential school system and is now part of the permanen
 t archive of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Ms. Welsh’s films ha
 ve been broadcast nationally on CBC\, CTV and APTN\, and have been feature
 d at major film festivals in Canada\, the U.S.\, France\, Australia and Ne
 w Zealand\, as well as the 51st United Nations Commission on the Status of
  Women in New York. In 2009\, her body of work was honoured with the WIFTV
  (Women in Film and Television Vancouver) Artistic Achievement Award for f
 ilmmaking excellence in telling women’s stories. She is also an Associate 
 Professor Emerita (Gender Studies) at the University of Victoria.\n
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LOCATION:150\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherb
 rooke Ouest
SUMMARY:“Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis” - film screening and discussio
 n
URL:/sociology/channels/event/lii-michif-niiyanaan-we-
 are-metis-film-screening-and-discussion-355394
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