A mini-series on misconceptions about the Métis: Part 1

tânisi kiyawâw, hello everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve written about Métis identity, and since the same misconceptions keep coming up, I thought I’d spend a little time addressing them, yet again. I’ve written about Métis identity before, specifically in this piece “You’re Métis? So which of your parents is an Indian?” and in...

Names and the White Possessive: Information for Creatives

In her 2015 work, The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty, Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Goenpul from Minjerribah, Quandamooka FN) explores the way in which white nation-states (Australia, Canada, the United States, New Zealand) use racial logics to disrupt Indigenous territorial sovereignty explicitly through structures of colonial territorial possession. “The white possessive” is not simply the...

Springing into action

I am excited to announce that due to me getting serious about having a year of “saying no,” my schedule is finally starting to clear up. I’ve gone from doing an average of forty events a year to having just a handful in 2022. So what does this mean for my Patreon? Well, most importantly,...

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How to Create a Book (or Story) Outline

tânisi nitôtêmitik, hello my friends, how are you? I’ve been involved as mentor for the Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle since about May of this year, and as a result I’ve been thinking about writing a lot, and sort of everything associated with publishing. I thought I’d go ahead and share some of that here on...

Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

tânisi kiyawâw, I’m thrilled to share with you the book announcement for my upcoming collection of short stories Buffalo is the New Buffalo! You can pre-order it here: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Buffalo-Is-the-New-Buffalo. It’s been awesome working with Arsenal Pulp Press on this. I deeply appreciate their patience as my life fell to pieces over the course of this...

This Place: 150 Years Retold, the Podcast

I am so excited to share this with you! It’s been two years now since the graphic novel collection, “This Place: 150 Years Retold” was released, and it remains one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had as a writer. It provided an opportunity to collaborate with so many amazing creative people, and resulted in...

Grassroots Métis Statement on Winnipeg Police and the MMF: Abolish the Police!

Last year, in response to statements issued by the Métis National Council and the Manitoba Métis Federation condemning Hereditary Chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en and land defenders, we organized a statement of solidarity. You can see that post, and the signatories here. Today, I am going to share with you another grassroots Métis response to ongoing...

Social media burn-out, it’s not just you

tânisi nitôtêmitik, I’ve been largely absent from my main social media platform, Twitter, since at least November of last year. I don’t think I’ll ever be back, at least not to the extent I was before, and I wanted to discuss that a little bit, not because I think my reasons are unique or even...

Métis in Space Theatre Presents: Tara McGowan-Ross

We are determined to make 2021 a better year than the last. With that in mind, we dropped our Season 6 premiere of otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk, Métis in Space (yay!!!!). Even more exciting however, is the launch of: otipêyimisiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk otôtêma pîkiskwêyiwa: MÉTIS IN SPACE THEATRE PRESENTS, PRESENTS, PRESENTS, PRESENTS, PRESENTS… We have lined up five...