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(Front row: left-right) MNO Region 9 PCMNO Councilor Peter Rivers, CS Wind Project ManagerSK Yoon and MNO Clear Waters Métis Council President Jerry Clarke. (Back row: left-right) MNOGrand River Métis Council (GRMC) Senator CarolLévis, MNO Windsor-Essex Métis Council (WEMC) President Donna Grayer, MNO Niagara Region Métis Council (NRMC) President Derrick Pont, MNO GRMC Treasurer Leslie

Scenes from the Thunder Bay Spring Festival (top:letf-right) Commissioner on the MNO Commissionon Métis Rights and Self-Government Paul Robitaille, MNO Thunder Bay Métis Council President Jean Camirand and Spring Festival Organizer Madeline Denhardt (bottom) Festivalparticipants creating beadwork and playing atraditional Métis game. (Pictures by David Harel)Click here for larger picture. On March 18, 2017, over

The Métis Nation of Ontario(MNO) has developed a Métis youth survey to provide a deeper understanding of Métis community youth needs in Ontario related to high school completion, post-secondary education and transition to employment. This will enable the MNO to develop and/or enhance programs that the community deems important. Please note that you do not

All Métis youth are invited to send in photos of their beadwork, to be entered into a draw for bead supplies. Métis have long been known for our beautiful floral beadwork, so much so that we were known by the Lakota people as “the flower beadwork people.” For so long, Métis communities in Ontario were

Members of the MNO WEMC who worked with the Chumzuk Museum (left-right) MNO Veterans’Council Women’s Representative Shelly Claus,Senator Jim Turner, Women’s RepresentativeSharlene Lance, President Donna Grayer and Morgan Baillergeon. Click here for larger picture. The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Windsor-Essex Métis Council (WEMC) worked with the Chumzuk Museum in Windsor to develop a small

MNO Historic Sault Ste. Marie Dance Club studentsperforming at the Bon Soo Festival. Click here forlarger picture. On February 20, 2017, The Métis Dance Club of the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Historic Sault Ste. Marie Métis Council (HSSMC) performed to a packed audience at The Machine Shop in Sault Ste. Marie. The performance was

Joanna Burt. Click here for larger Picture. Métis youth Joanna Burt will be making her debut with the Canadian Opera Company (COC) in the role of Louis Riel’s sister Sara in the upcoming COC production of Louis Riel. Hailing from Lindsay, Ontario, Joanna has been part of Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Summer Youth Cultural

Members of the MNO GLMC who participated in theGovernance and Finance Training (Front: left-right)Women’s Representative Carla Macdonald, OfficeCoordinator Susan Schank, Chair Robert LeClair,Secretary Helen Marietta (Back: left-right) TreasurerJamie Coture, Councillor Patrick VanWyck, Councillor Murray Hillyer, President Pete Coture andSenator Ralph Wolf Thistle. Click here for largerpicture. On March 4 -5, 2017, The Métis Nation of

MNO GLMC Senator Ralph Wolf Thistle presentsa gift of Métis art to Navaho Marine Veteran SpartaInstructor Philip Folsom. Click here for largerpicture. This is the story of how Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Great Lakes Métis Council (GLMC) Senator Ralph Wolf Thistle took on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and addiction. PTSD is an anxiety disorder

Métis youth Chasity King holds upthe 2017 Sault St. Marie Junior GirlsYouth Bowl Provincial ChampionsBanner. Click here for larger picture. Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Labour Market Manager Tammy Webb is very proud of her niece Chasity King. On February 26, 2017, Chasity competed at the provincial level in the Youth Bowl Canada (YBC) competition