Michif app aims to inspire people to learn the Métis language Camperville is a small Métis community just over 400 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. "Some elders in Camperville welcomed me and ...

There’s a lot that Jeanne Pelletier remembers. Following her parents around in their close-knit Michif community near Marieval, Sask., in the early 1940s, she learned not only to walk but to talk.

Since September 2022, staff have been working at the Michif Master/Mentor-Apprentice Language House to help revitalize the traditional language of Métis people in Manitoba. Last week, they ...

This episode of Paykiiwikay takes a deep dive into the history of the Michif language, from its earliest roots in the fur trade up to the present day, and discusses why Michif language preservation is ...

Teacher. Storyteller. Elder. Doctor. Dad. For Norman Fleury, all of life’s greatest joys and achievements are rooted in his Métis identity and Michif language, culture and heritage. “I speak ...

All her life, Patricia Millar believed the language she’d grown up with was precious. She held onto it even after nuns from the east tried to suppress it: it was the language of her parents, of ...

With the Michif language defined as “critically endangered” by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Métis Nation Council (MNC) has recently voiced ...

In accepting funding from the federal government to help revitalize the Michif language in Manitoba, the Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF) pushed the need for a nation-to-nation approach in the ...

Michif language keeper and Métis Elder Sophie McDougall from St. Louis, Sask., is being commemorated with a new stamp.