“Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis” - film screening and discussion
MISC and the Indigenous Studies Program invite you to a film screening of the documentary, “Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis” with special guest, Christine Welsh, producer and writer. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Christine Welsh and Scott Berthelette, moderated by Les Sabiston, an audience Q&A, and an informal reception.
The event is free but registration is mandatory via
About the film:
Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are MĂ©tis - Contemporary MĂ©tis voices speaking their truth.
In this one-hour documentary, MĂ©tis elders, artists, activists and scholars examine the unique history of MĂ©tis people in Canada and share their diverse perspectives on what it means to be MĂ©tis today. Lii Michif Niiyanaan is a love letter to the courage, determination and resilient spirit of the MĂ©tis nation and a call for all Canadians to embrace the richness of their shared history.
Christine Welsh (Producer, Writer) is Métis with roots in the historic Red River Settlement and the Qu’Appelle Valley of southern Saskatchewan. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films include Women in the Shadows (1991), Keepers of the Fire (1994), The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters (2000), and the NFB feature documentary Finding Dawn (NFB 2006), one of the earliest calls to action on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Her 1995 film Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle (with Peter C. Campbell) featured some of the first public testimony from survivors of Canada’s Indian residential school system and is now part of the permanent archive of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Ms. Welsh’s films have been broadcast nationally on CBC, CTV and APTN, and have been featured at major film festivals in Canada, the U.S., France, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the 51st United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York. In 2009, her body of work was honoured with the WIFTV (Women in Film and Television Vancouver) Artistic Achievement Award for filmmaking excellence in telling women’s stories. She is also an Associate Professor Emerita (Gender Studies) at the University of Victoria.