Stories of Métis Women
Tales My Kookum Told Me

A great collection of stories from a number of different Metis women. This book is full of history, culture, heartwarming stories and equally heartbreaking ones. I loved listening to this on audio and found the stories deeply moving. Highly recommended with a stunning cover.......more

Loved this!! So cool to see the resilience of so many powerful women, and always love local books because it gives me the IVE BEEN THERE!!!!!! feeling of excitement lol......more

Listened to this as an audiobook. It was cool to hear the stories in the words of the matriarchs themselves, just someone else reading it. Sometimes it was not really stories, like genealogies instead for example but I'm glad those words are preserved too and those parts were good to fall asleep to.......more

What a great little book! I had heard many of these stories having gone to many meetings when I was younger. It was amazing to hear and meet many of these women speak, some who have now passed on. In terms of the audio book, I think that it would be good to call the communities in which names they’r......more

I love love this! This is a collection of short stories by women who are Metis (particularly in Alberta, but also in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and across Canada). It has so many beautiful stories and a few hard ones by common women preserving a history that has been expunged and eradicated. I really......more