{"id":6676,"date":"2018-11-08T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2019-01-21T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:16:30","slug":"st-albert-metis-settlement-field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/11\/08\/st-albert-metis-settlement-field-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Albert, M\u00e9tis Settlement Field Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Albert, a few kilometres north of Edmonton, is one of the largest and most history-rich M\u00e9tis settlements in Canada. To learn more of this history and culture, the University of Alberta Libraries&#8217; Indigenous initiatives put on a staff training event on November 1, in partnership with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michifconnections.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michif Cultural Connections<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/artsandheritage.ca\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mus\u00e9e H\u00e9ritage Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Highlights of the morning included a personal tour with Sharon Morin and Josh Morin of the Michif Cultural Connections building, library collection, and artifacts.\u00a0Celina Loyer, an expert in traditional cultural knowledge of the Treaty 6, M\u00e9tis Region 4 area, gave us a beginners&#8217; workshop on finger weaving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afterwards, we took the Founder\u2019s Walk through downtown St. Albert, crossing the bridge to view the Mus\u00e9e H\u00e9ritage Museum. We warmed cold fingers and toes<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0at the St. Albert historic grain elevators while lunching on beef barley vegetable soup and fresh bannock. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The final steps of the journey took us to River Lots 23 and 24 to view original family homes, new community gardens, and a burgeoning food forest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks go to Kayla Lar-Son [BA Honours Native Studies, MLIS, Indigenous Academic Resident UAL], for organizing such an informative and remarkable day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[metaslider id=&#8221;6647&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Albert, a few kilometres north of Edmonton, is one of the largest and most history-rich M\u00e9tis settlements in Canada. To learn more of this history and culture, the University of Alberta Libraries&#8217; Indigenous initiatives put on a staff training event on November 1, in partnership with the\u00a0Michif Cultural Connections and the Mus\u00e9e H\u00e9ritage Museum. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":6680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}