MNO's President on TVO

Gary Lapinksi appears on TVO's "The Agenda with Steve Paikin" and discusses Aboriginal Education. Below is Part One of the entire TVO episode. Access All Three Parts of the Video

Oral History Project

Moon River Métis Council is carrying out an oral history project to document some aspects of the Métis way of life in order to preserve and share our community knowledge.  This study is a follow-up to the written report completed in 2006 entitled “From the Straits of Mackinac to Georgian Bay:  300 years of Métis history”.

Your involvement in this project, however big or small, is important and would be greatly appreciated.  Do you have photos, memorabilia, cultural practices and/or stories that relate to your family and the Métis way of life?

Meetings and interviews will be carried out with people from the Métis community of Penetanguishene and area starting in March of 2011.  The information will be captured on tape, video, and photography by members of our consulting team from AECOM (Nicole Fraser MacDonald and Jeremy Shute).  

The final result will be an oral history archive that is intended to be made into a community celebration video and coffee table book that can be used as a fundraiser for the Council in the future.  The results of this project will be similar to the documentary that was made by AECOM in 2010 on traditional plant knowledge.  A number of Métis people from the Penetanguishene area were involved in that project.  You can find out more about the project and view the documentary at:   www.metisnation.org 

Any information and knowledge that you share will be securely managed and will not be shared without your consent.

If you would like to take part in this project please contact, as soon as possible:

Louise Goulding
email: lgoulding@moonrivermetis.ca 
Phone: 705-746-4974