Sayer Family Pt. 4: Métis Rights Champions
By the time Pierre Guillaume Sayer retired from the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1832, his family had grown and settled in Grantown (later...
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Sayer Family Pt. 3: Resilience and Independence
The merger of the North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821 marked a turning point in the fur trade. For Métis fur trade...
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Sayer Family Pt. 2: A Fur Trading Family
As Métis boys who grew up learning from their fur trader father in the vibrant fur trading posts of the Upper Great Lakes, Henry, Pierre...
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Sayer Family Pt. 1: Upper Great Lakes Roots
Growing up in the heart of the historic fur trade, the Sayer brothers—Henry, Pierre Guillaume, and John Charles—were part the emergent...
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Métis Petitions: A Shared Form of Advocacy
A common Métis way of life developed across west central North America, from the Upper Great Lakes westward, that endured over the span...
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A Common Métis Way of Life: River Lots
The Métis are connected by far more than discrete and singular moments of collective political action, like the Battle of Seven Oaks that...
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