{"id":6066,"date":"2010-03-17T03:57:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2012-01-08T21:20:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T21:20:54","slug":"my-people-will-sleep-for-one-hundred-years-story-of-a-metis-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6066","title":{"rendered":"My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a M\u00e9tis Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443\/bitstream\/1828\/550\/1\/cottell_2004.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a M\u00e9tis Self<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Victoria<br \/>\n2004<br \/>\n106 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sylvia Rae Cottell<\/strong>, B.F.A.<br \/>\nEmily Carr Institute of Art and Design<\/p>\n<p><em>A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;My people will sleep for one hundred years when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Riel\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Riel<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result of the current political debate that surrounds the definition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9tis<\/a>, the issue of M\u00e9tis identity on both community and individual levels is often challenged in a public forum. Metis people outside of the areas considered the main hubs of Metis culture are likely to be faced with a myriad of different factors that impact their identity, including lack of community connections and limited contact with M\u00e9tis cultural influences. There is a need to openly voice the diverse experiences of being M\u00e9tis in order to affirm the experiences of many M\u00e9tis people. This <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autoethnography\" target=\"_blank\">autoethnographic<\/a> study aims to provide an account of an experience of being M\u00e9tis and to salvage a sense of identity after many generations of assimilation. Autoethnography provides the freedom necessary for the representation of cultural values that are beyond the traditional assumptions of academic discourse (Spry, 2001) and aims to engage the reader on an emotional level. A purpose of this study is to validate the experience of many M\u00e9tis readers and to enhance the level of culturally relevant practice provided to M\u00e9tis individuals and communities by counsellors.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443\/bitstream\/1828\/550\/1\/cottell_2004.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My People Will Sleep for One Hundred Years: Story of a M\u00e9tis Self University of Victoria 2004 106 pages Sylvia Rae Cottell, B.F.A. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,19,838,459,125,8,26,394],"tags":[2512,2511,5326],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-dissertations","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-sylvia-cottell","tag-sylvia-rae-cottell","tag-university-of-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}