Putting Down Roots : Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community (FNCR 2026) Gwich'in Bear will over the ice

Bear will over the ice

and recovery

In stories like Stranger Danger

A profound thinker and writer

Illustrated by Aly McKnight

Putting Down Roots : Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community (FNCR 2026) Gwich'in Bear will over the iceWritten by Cheryl Troupe, Mtis, from north central Saskatchewan and with a Foreword by Maria Campbell, a distinguished Metis author, playwright, filmmaker, and Elder. Centring kinship and the strength of women, Putting Down Roots reframes Mtis road allowance communities as sites of profound resistance and resilience, restoring Mtis life in places, times, and scholarship where it has been obscured by settler narratives. These communities were not