Join host Samantha Loney for an important conversation with Taylor Manser, an enviornmental advisor at the Metis Nation of Ontario's Lands and Resource Consultation Branch. We discuss the importance of consulting with Indigenous communties when it comes to the enviornment, she uses two-eyed seeing in her work and how to be a good ally to Indigenous Peoples.

If you are an MNO citizen and would like to learn more about how you can have your voice heard when it comes to consultation and enviornmental projects in your area, visit Lands, Resources & Consultations | Métis Nation of Ontario to find more information.

This episode was made possible with the support of 880 Cities, the Metis Nation of Ontario's Culture and Economic Grant along with the Rural Ontario Changemakers program.

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Join host Samantha Loney as she speaks with author Arnolda Dufour-Bowes about her father's experience as a road allowance Metis, the importance of storytelling for healing and how she is helping educators teach Metis history.

You can check out Arnolda's Apples and Traintracks exhibit at Back to Batoche this summer and check out the next book in the Maggie Lou Firefox book series August 2025. To learn more about Arnolda's work visit arnoldadufourbowes.com.

This episode was made possible with support from the Rural Ontario Changemakers program.

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Join host Samantha Loney as she sits down with two-spirit Metis artist Jason Baerg to discuss the fight for Metis representation in the Indigenous art world, the importance of art in uplifting the Metis Nation and his life growing up in St. Albert, Saskatchewan.

You can learn more about Jason Baerg at www.jasonbaerg.ca.

This episode was made possible with support from the Rural Ontario Changemakers program.

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Host Samantha Loney sits down with story quilter Theresa Lafreniere-Fama to discuss her journey in becoming an artist later in life, how her book Quilted Memoirs is changing the lives of her community, and her love of her home Thunder Bay Beach.

To order Theresa's book, email book.whoknewbytheresa@gmail.com.

This episode was made possible with the help of 880 Cities and the City of Barrie's Arts and Culture Investment Program.

Host Samantha Loney sits down with emerging Metis filmmaker Andrew Konoff to discuss their debut short film Plansh A Roo, the responsibility Indigenous filmmakers have in telling stories about their community and how their journey from making skate films to his award winning short narrative film.

You can follow Andrew Konoff on Instagram here.

This episode was made possible with the help of 880 Cities and the City of Barrie's Arts and Culture Investment Program.

Host Samantha Loney sits down with children's book author Willie Poll to discuss how they have been using their books to teach Indigenous youth about the impacts of colonialism on our communities, the importance of children seeing themselves represented in books, and collaborating with other Indigenous artists.

You can follow Willie Poll on Instagram here and purchase their books wherever books are sold. Willie's next book, Our Ancestors Kitchen, will be released April 2025. Pre-order here.

This episode was made possible with the help of 880 Cities and the City of Barrie's Arts and Culture Investment Program.

Host Samantha Loney sits down with Metis installation artist Tracey-Mae Chambers to discuss combining art and advocacy, how she's using her art to decolonize institutions and her next project about the opioid crisis.

To learn more about Tracey-Mae Chambers work and how you can get involved in her next project, you can visit traceymae.com.

This episode was made possible with the help of 880 Cities and the City of Barrie's Arts and Culture Investment Program.

Host Samantha Loney continues her discussion with Cree-Metis filmmaker and IM4 Labs Matriarch, Loretta Todd, to figure out how we can continue the fight for Indigenous sovereignty in cinema, creating space for Indigenous filmmakers to learn new technologies with the IM4 Lab, and what advice she has for 'young' filmmakers.

Loretta's series Coyote Science is available on APTN Lumi.

To learn more about the IM4 Lab, visit im4lab.com

This episode was made possible with the help of 880 Cities and the City of Barrie's Arts and Culture Investment Program.