Welcome to Travelling Metis
Travelling Metis follows host Samantha Loney as she interviews Metis people across Turtle Island to explore kinship, culture and what it means to be Metis.
Travelling Metis follows host Samantha Loney as she interviews Metis people across Turtle Island to explore kinship, culture and what it means to be Metis.
Samantha, or White Squaw as her mother affectionately calls her, is a Metis journalist and filmmaker with Algonquin Heritage from Lake Nippissing. She also has Irish and German heritage from her father, hence the 'white' in White Squaw. Her Metis roots come from the Laronde-Sauvage family line (with some Beauchamp and probably more mixed in).
Growing up in Barrie, Ontario, Samantha was disconnected from her culture. Hearing the stories of her mothers childhood at kitchen parties filled with fiddle playing and music from her Uncle Larry Coad, Samantha decided to reconnect to her Metis roots and has been an active member of her community ever since.
Samantha is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School. Her films have screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Weengushk International Film Festival, Acimowin Film Festival, and Maoriland in New Zealand.
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 [email protected].
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.
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