Like many other Métis communities, the Métis of the Upper Great Lakes relied on the bounty of their surrounding waterways for sustenance...

After travelling extensively and forming rich connections throughout the Métis Homeland, Hyppolite Brissette and his Métis wife, Archange...

Hyppolite Brissette’s fur trade career began in 1817 when he signed a three-year contract with the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) as a...

Archange L’Hirondelle, the Métis matriarch of the Brissette-L’Hirondelle family, grew up in the fur trade world around Lesser Slave Lake,...

A common Métis way of life developed across west central North America, from the Upper Great Lakes westward, that endured over the span...

While the term “Métis” is most commonly used today to recognize the culturally and politically distinct communities that emerged from...