![]() ![]() But what it meant to me to get the first reference of it, I mean, I was in my twenties, so I wasn’t a teenager even. And growing up in the States instead of growing up in Canada, in particular, I think had I grown up in Canada, there would have been a few models for sure, for looking and finding that word and myself. And so in my case, Alberta, but in many other cases, the middle of the United States or the middle of Canada, so that’s what’s broadly considered Metis territory. It’s a mixture of an indigenous tribe with French trappers and traders generally, and sometimes Irish or Scots Irish. Being Metis is an identity predominantly in Canada, but also in the Northern parts of the U.S. ![]() First, perhaps you can define that for people, and then speak a bit about that moment reading Erdrich, and what happens when you finally see yourself on the page? But, you tell the story of reading Louise Erdrich, and that in her stories was the first reference you ever read to being Metis. I’m middle-class, white, grew up in suburban America, and so I never had to go looking for myself. ![]() I grew up in the well-documented territory and time of John Cheever and John Updike. Marion: Well, to start off, I want to ask you this, I know nothing about not being able to find myself in the literature, in which I was given in school and at home as a child. ![]()
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