Play tells tough story of violence against Native women

Aboriginal Multimedia Society

https://ammsa.com/publications/ontario-birchbark/play-tells-tough-story-violence-against-native-women

"The strong cast also featured [...] Michelle Latimer

Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love

Christopher Hoile

http://www.stage-door.com/Theatre/2004/Entries/2004/4/6_Unidentified_Human_Remains_and_the_True_Nature_of_Love.html

"Michelle Latimer as a psychic prostitute is never believable."

https://nowtoronto.com/news/fall-guide-stage

"West Coast playwright Marie Clements responds to a series of aboriginal women’s murders in 80s Vancouver with The Unnatural And Accidental Women , a sometimes chilling, sometimes playful look at the characters not as statistics but as human beings. Native Earth and Buddies collaborate on the production, directed by Yvette Nolan and with a superb cast that includes Muriel Miguel , Gloria May Eshkibok , Sarah Podemski , Michelle Latimer and Valerie Buhagiar ."

Theatrical Medicine: Aboriginal Performance, Ritual and Commemoration (for Vanessa Lee Buckner)

University of the Fraser Valley

Michelle La Flamme

https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/tric/article/view/18430/19919

Native Earth Performing Arts

https://www.nativeearth.ca/the-unnatural-and-accidental-women/

The Globe and Mail

KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/women-lost-and-found/article747320/

https://issuu.com/imaginenative/docs/2007_in_catalogue

"Michelle Latimer is a Metis actor and filmaker..."

https://www.cab-acr.ca/english/social/diversity/media.shtm

https://issuu.com/imaginenative/docs/2008_catalog

Michelle Latimer (Métis) is a filmmaker, an actor, and a producer.

https://lift.ca/programming-home/michelle-latimer-2007-lift-imaginenative-mentorship/

https://issuu.com/imaginenative/docs/2009_catalog_ccedc9ac1f9b3a

"imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival"- Oct 14-18

MICHAEL STEVENS

http://www.sneakpeek.ca/2009/09/imaginenative-film-media-arts-festival.html

"The films programmed this year," said Director of Programming Michelle Latimer, "speak to the contemporary experience and reflect the fact that today's Indigenous filmmakers are reclaiming the medium of film and transforming the world-view of Indigenous people by voicing our contemporary stories from the inside out."

Courtney Montour

https://www.cbc.ca/news2/arts/things-that-go-pop-blog/2009/10/imaginenative-film-fest-focus-on-nepal.html

“I almost didn’t get out of the country because of a Maoist uprising,” said Latimer. She thinks the instability of the Nepalese government is one of the roadblocks. She may be right. ImagineNATIVE’s Nepal program was missing the physical presence of its filmmakers. Two people from the program, an IFA board member and one filmmaker, were denied their visas twice, explains Latimer, “because the government didn’t believe that they would return to the country. I think this is highly discriminatory and prevents these filmmakers from having their work shown on a global stage.”

KEEPERS OF THE EARTH: FIRST NATIONS WOMEN DIRECTORS

Winnipeg Film Group

https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/event/keepers-of-the-earth-first-nations-women-directors/

"Background: Michelle Latimer /BR/ About Michelle Latimer (Métis) is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and actor."

https://nsi-canada.ca/2013/03/choke/

Exclusive Interview: Director Michelle Latimer part 1

Pearl Snap Discount

https://pearlsnapdiscount.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/exclusive-interview-director-michelle-latimer/

"My father was a patrol pilot for a natural gas company and we used to go down to texas every year because he would teach at the Bell helicopter school"

Pearl Snap Discount

https://soundcloud.com/user9004982/michelle-latimer-1-theater

"I'm Metis, meaning mixed algonquin french descent"

Indian Country Today

https://web.archive.org/web/20110130123344/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/01/sundance-honorable-mention-for-canadian-first-nations-short/

From the archives: Interview with filmmaker Michelle Latimer

Nelson Jack Davis & Kyna Morgan

https://her-film.com/2012/04/26/archives-latime/

"MICHELLE LATIMER is a Métis filmmaker based in Canada."

https://vimeo.com/25416028

Programmer Michelle Latimer invites you to imagineNATIVE's Opening Night 2011, Oct 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIK8hEsXsVY

http://web.archive.org/web/20140422030020/http://www.michellelatimer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ML-cv-filmography_AUG2012.pdf

Hot Docs 2013: 'Alias' Film Shows Toronto Rap Isn't All About Drake

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/03/alias-hot-docs-toronto-rap_n_3203115.html

"Growing up mixed, First Nations and not and sort of straddling both worlds... I think, actually, with Idle No More, it's gotten worse. For instance, you go to an Idle No More article and you see the readers' comments. It's awful,"

https://www.cbc.ca/airplay/episodes/2013/04/02/film-festival-finds-a-fan-in-michelle-latimer/

http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/hot-docs-2013-alias

"but having grown up Métis in Northern Ontario, injustice was never an abstract notion" /P/ Latimer isn’t naive and realizes how Alias might be perceived: “I really don’t want the film to be seen as an outsider coming into a black culture.” Yet coming at it as an outsider herself granted her respect from her subjects, who opened up when they discovered she was Native. (“It was just assumed I understood what they were talking about,” she says. “And often I did.”) Having spent most of her life “climbing over stereotypes,” she didn’t see it as a stretch to be making this film. It’s an application of her Métis experience connecting to another culture—bridging the two might begin to create some healing.

The Toronto rappers who really started from the bottom

The Globe and Mail

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/the-toronto-rappers-who-really-started-from-the-bottom/article11581851/

"I grew up in Northern Ontario. My mother is First Nation. My father is not. So, I've always had a foot in two canoes. The one thing I noticed about my Aboriginal friends was that we all loved rap music. It was iconic."

Toronto_hip_hop_scene_in_the_spotlight_at_hot_docs

https://www.blogto.com/film/2013/04/toronto_hip_hop_scene_in_the_spotlight_at_hot_docs/

https://playbackonline.ca/2013/09/05/the-2013-10-to-watch-michelle-latimer/

"“I was worried. I didn’t want to be an outsider coming into a community, because I know that feeling,” Latimer, herself Metis/Algonquin, says."

MÉTIS VOYAGEUR

https://www.metisnation.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/mv_13february_fin_scr.pdf

"Métis Filmmaker and Actor, Michelle Latimer has been selected as one of the 2013 ReelWorld Film Festival Trailblazers."

Yorkton News Review

https://www.yorktonthisweek.com/success-and-challenges-of-aboriginal-filmmaking-1.1648656

Latimer says that her perspective as an indigenous person is always going to be a vital part of her films, whatever the subject is, and she wants to be seen as someone whose perspective is valuable. /P/ "I don't want to just be seen as an aboriginal filmmaker, I want to be seen as a filmmaker." Latimer says.

http://www.indiecanent.com/Alias_PressKit.pdf

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/tiff/2014/08/28/tiff_behind_the_scenes_with_emerging_canadian_directors.html

https://www.nfb.ca/film/nimmikaage_she_dances_for_people/

Victoria Film Festival features new indigenous film program

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-film-festival-features-new-indigenous-film-program-1.2933928

"I'm always very supportive when people put resources to telling indigenous stories," said Michelle Latimer, a Métis/Algonquin filmmaker, actor, and curator brought in from the imagineNATIVE film and media festival in Toronto.

VFF: Michelle Latimer - Indigenous Program (Feb 6, 2015)

https://soundcloud.com/cfuv/vff-michelle-latimer-indigenous-program-feb-6-2015

"All the films have this underlying urgency and voice behind them and thats an exceptional thing and I think we're going to see more and more coming out of our First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities"

Dawson City International Short Film Festival

https://soundcloud.com/cbcyukon/all-eyes-on-dawson-city-short-film-festival

Adaka Cultural Festival

https://soundcloud.com/cbcyukon/film-program-lined-up-for-adaka-cultural-festival

ML references "female first nations directors"

Sundance Institute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgm2Yim4dRY

"I'm Algonquin Metis" "we exist today that our culture is still here we're still alive in making these films so many times I've had people saying I'm willing to die for this and it really made me reflect like what am I willing to die for and I don't think I could have answered that a year ago but I feel like I can answer that now because in understanding what you're willing to die for it actually gives you insight into why you're living"

Viceland’s ‘Rise’ Relives the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/arts/television/vicelands-rise-relives-the-dakota-access-pipeline-protests.html

"Directed by Michelle Latimer (who is Métis and Algonquin)"

Rise Up!: Director and producer Michelle Latimer speaks about VICE’s Indigenous doc series ‘RISE’

http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/rise-up-director-and-producer-michelle-latimer-speaks-about-vices-indigenou

"Toronto’s Michelle Latimer, who is a Metis/Algonquin filmmaker and curator, directed and was the showrunner for RISE" ML: "Because ours is an oral culture. We don’t write things in books. I feel like there’s an accountability on people in indigenous communities to remember. You’re gifted a story and that story is your heritage and your responsibility. You have to tell those stories to your grandchildren. And it’s not really valued in the dominant culture: that idea of storytelling, that idea of ancestry, that idea of the land as a sacred, living partnership."

From Standing Rock to the Red Power Movement: New Series ”RISE” Focuses on Indigenous Resistance

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/24/from_standing_rock_to_the_red

PAGE:"Métis and Algonquin descent" "AG:we’re joined by Michelle Latimer, who is Métis-Algonquin descent" "AG: Did you not want to identify yourself? ML: It’s interesting. Early on, it was—you know, it was a choice, actually. I wanted to be seen as an actress and not be pigeonholed as only being invited to play Native roles. And it was hard, because I wanted to identify, but I was also advised maybe not to. And so I didn’t. But then, as soon as I did identify, it’s exactly what happened. I got pigeonholed to play Native roles. So, I think that’s a stereotype that a lot of Native actresses come up against."

Viceland's RISE with Michelle Latimer and Sarain Fox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BIhJdz5v-w

Chat w Director Michelle Latimer on 2017 TIFF short "Nuuca"

Rudy Blair Entertainment Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAa11qH2OBc

ML: "it's never been a better time than now to sort of uphold the women creatives in our community and for me being an indigenous woman and having another indigenous women who also has a film here to have that representation is so important for our community right"

https://playbackonline.ca/2017/09/21/indigenous-voices-rising-michelle-latimer/

"Written and directed by Métis/Algonquin filmmaker Latimer and produced by Vice Studio Canada and APTN"

CKUT interview with Michelle Latimer on Monday Morning

CKUT Community News

https://soundcloud.com/radiockut/ckut-interview-with-michelle-latimer-on-monday-morning-after-october-2-2017

BGN Interview: Sovereign Narratives–A Conversation with ‘NUUCA’ Director Michelle Latimer

https://blackgirlnerds.com/bgn-interviews-sovereign-narratives-a-conversation-with-nuuca-director-michelle-latimer/

“We had our own societies and our own laws and our own nations and those are not recognized today in the same ways that they were. And so [sovereignty] is not about recognition within this mandate but about revitalizing our own society. I think that in order to have sovereignty, you have to have a sovereign narrative; you have to have sovereignty over your stories.”

NFB at TIFF 2020. World premiere for Michelle Latimer’s Inconvenient Indian at the Toronto International Film Festival.

National Film Board

https://www.canada.ca/en/national-film-board/news/2020/08/nfb-at-tiff-2020-world-premiere-for-michelle-latimers-inconvenient-indian-at-the-toronto-international-film-festival.html

About ML: "She is of Algonquin, Métis and French heritage, from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki), Quebec. She grew up on Treaty 9 territory in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and currently splits her time between there and Toronto, Canada."

Trickster is your next must watch series and here's why

Vanja Mutabdzija Jaksic

https://www.cbc.ca/television/trickster-is-your-next-must-watch-series-and-here-s-why-1.5706448

"Algonquin-Métis award-winning filmmaker Michelle Latimer" "[And] I feel like there was this tremendous sense of pride walking around the set," adds Crystle Lightning, just because Michelle made sure that there were at least two Indigenous people in every single department."

Filmmaker Michelle Latimer reclaims Indigenous storytelling with Trickster and Inconvenient Indian

Radheyan Simonpillai

https://www.straight.com/movies/filmmaker-michelle-latimer-reclaims-indigenous-storytelling-with-trickster-and-inconvenient

"Algonquin and Métis filmmaker Michelle Latimer..." "That issue hits home for Latimer. Like so many Indigenous people, she grew up with a complicated relationship to her heritage. Her father is French-Canadian. Her mother is Algonquin and Métis, raised in Northern Ontario, away from her community in Kitigan Zibi. Latimer’s mother was Catholicized at a school taught by nuns, where abuse was prevalent. She is not unlike the generation that Arnaquq-Baril describes." The Trickster director recalls watching her mom bury her heritage while growing up in Thunder Bay, a town riddled with racism. As a result, Latimer grew up detached from Indigenous traditions and often confused about her mixed-race identity. /P/ “It’s an awful thing to grow up seeing the parent you idolize trying so hard to fit in,” says Latimer. She talks about how her mother would explain away her dark skin or let people assume she had returned from vacation. “I realize she wanted me to have the same opportunities as every other kid, but her shame was apparent.” /P/ In terms of grappling with her own identity, Latimer’s first job didn’t make things easier. At 14, she worked for Fort William Historical Park, representing Indigenous culture for tourists. /P/ Latimer was a performer there, dressed like a young Ojibwe Métis girl from the 1800s. She sat in a wigwam, beaded and talked to tourists about her character’s history. In some ways, the experience felt authentic and affirming, as she learned beading and harvesting from her Elders. But then we think back to the Buffalo Bill performers in Thomas Edison’s films. She told the story of the fur trade as written by settlers for settlers. Meanwhile at school, she was learning a whitewashed version of her own history. /P/ Latimer also grew up aware of her own privilege as a light-skin person. At a young age, she saw her friends cope with more intense racism than she did. And even today, she remains uncomfortable with how her light skin may have benefitted her career “because society is so fucked.”

https://www.diffchecker.com/yFd6GFBw

Indigenous filmmaker readies two projects for TIFF

https://trnto.com/toronto-filmmaker-michelle-latimer-trickster-tiff/

“The characters really resonated for me, particularly Maggie and Jared and that mother-son relationship. It was the irreverent humour and the gritty reality of it,” she says. “Secondly, it was an Indigenous community that felt truthful to my own experience. And so that is why I felt like I would like to make this into a series.”

Michelle Latimer reclaims Indigenous storytelling with two titles at TIFF

RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

https://nowtoronto.com/movies/tiff-2020/michelle-latimer-trickster-inconvenient-indian

"Algonquin and Métis filmmaker Michelle Latimer..." "That issue hits home for Latimer. Like so many Indigenous people, she grew up with a complicated relationship to her heritage. Her father is French-Canadian. Her mother is Algonquin and Métis, raised in Northern Ontario, away from her community in Kitigan Zibi. Latimer’s mother was Catholicized at a school taught by nuns, where abuse was prevalent. She is not unlike the generation that Arnaquq-Baril describes."

If you feel merely ‘educated’ after watching ‘Inconvenient Indian’ at TIFF, Michelle Latimer will not be pleased

The Peterborough Examiner

https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ts/entertainment/tiff/2020/09/07/if-you-feel-merely-educated-after-watching-inconvenient-indian-at-tiff-michelle-latimer-will-not-be-pleased.html

If you feel merely ‘educated’ after watching ‘Inconvenient Indian’ at TIFF, Michelle Latimer will not be pleased

The Toronto Star

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/tiff/2020/09/07/if-you-feel-merely-educated-after-watching-inconvenient-indian-at-tiff-michelle-latimer-will-not-be-pleased.html

INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER MICHELLE LATIMER ON THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN: THE DOCUMENTARY

Muskrat Magazine

http://muskratmagazine.com/interview-with-filmmaker-michelle-latimer-on-the-inconvenient-indian-the-documentary/

"Michelle Latimer (Algonquin/Métis)" ML: "I wanted to honor the circular forms of oral storytelling we have in our communities." ... "some of the poorest people in America live on reservations, and you’re going to have people who want that money, want that infrastructure. And then that causes a fracturing in community. And it’s already happening. We’re already seeing that with some of our leadership in tribal reservation land." ML on her animated film "I wanted to show the intergenerational effects of violence and this residential school, the history of residential schools" MO on truths"I feel like even with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the apology, that the larger society believes that we’ve already dealt with it. We had the settlement for the residential schools. Let’s move on with it. Things are changing…The things we do now will affect the future we move into and we can’t feign ignorance. I don’t think we should settle." ML on Audience takeaway: "I hope it celebrates Indigenous culture in a way that’s surprising and nuanced for people that might not have access to our communities in the same way as we do." ML BIO: "Michelle is of Algonquin, Metis and French heritage from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki) QC. She grew up in Thunder Bay, Ontario and currently splits her time between there and Toronto, Canada."

ORIGINAL-CIN TIFF INTERVIEW: MICHELLE LATIMER ON OUTRAGEOUS INDIGENOUS IMAGERY AND HER STYLISTIC APPROACH TO THOMAS KING'S INCONVENIENT INDIAN

https://www.original-cin.ca/posts/2020/9/9/original-cin-interview-michelle-latimer-on-outrageous-indigenous-imagery-and-her-stylistic-approach-to-thomas-kings-angrily-humorous-the-inconvenient-indian

"“That was my first job,” she recalls, “dressing up as a Metis woman in a wigwam. Here I was in high school, in my summer job, teaching people about my culture. We weren’t really learning about our culture in school. /P/ “I did not grow up learning about Residential Schools. It was something I learned about much later in my life. My family is pretty Christianized, my mother’s side of the family anyway.” /P/ Was she typecast as a Metis at Old Fort William? “I don’t know, I was so young at the time. But I got to connect with a lot of interesting elders who taught me a lot about traditional medicines, beadwork. I did my first set of moccasins there, sewing them and beading them. All of that was amazing.” "The teen who discovered her culture at a tourist attraction, is, these days, one of the most prominent voices among Indigenous filmmakers."

https://soundcloud.com/frameline/tiff-show-1-2020

Daniel Garber talks with director Michelle Latimer about Trickster and The Inconvenient Indian

https://culturalmining.com/2020/09/11/daniel-garber-talks-with-director-michelle-latimer-about-trickster-and-the-inconvenient-indian/

@5 "You're of Algonquin Metis, and French heritage from Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg" ML makes a "hmm" sound // @13m "shown the film to friend that are not from the Native community" // ML: "We have always been resourceful as a people. How do you live through a genocide that like spanned hundreds of years and still maintain your culture and languages traditions. We've managed to do that. It hasn't been easy but we've managed to do that. So it hasn't been through assimilation its been through adapting and through owning these new processes."

INCONVENIENT INDIAN Q&A with Michelle Latimer, Jesse Wente | TIFF 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1v0fnLDQU

INCONVENIENT INDIAN Cinema Intro with Michelle Latimer, Jesse Wente | TIFF 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjYwx150AO4

MOT - Season Premiere With Michelle Latimer & Ansley Simpson (September 14th, 2020)

https://soundcloud.com/elmntfm/mot-season-premiere-with

@1m "Michelle's Metis and Algonquin heritage informes her filmaking perspective" ML: "When I went back into my community. I grew up in Thunder bay Ontario"

Inconvenient Indian' director Michelle Latimer on examining the stories we're not told

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-39-metro-morning/clip/15797798-inconvenient-indian-director-michelle-latimer-examining-stories-were

Michelle Latimer & Joel Oulette | Trickster interview preview | TIFF 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vVBHXOq1os

Michelle Latimer talks about her new mini-series 'Trickster' during TIFF 2020

Marriska Fernandes

youtube.com/watch?v=TGPSaJYn9cQ

@30s "growing up I didn't really see representations of my community or my people on screen [...] when I started to make work behind the camera I thought: I want to see my community represented in a way that feels authentic to my experience" @5min "as a young person growing up in a town where you're like am i gonna ever get out of here?"

Reexamining Indigenous Mythology: Michelle Latimer on Inconvenient Indian & Trickster

https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/reexamining-indigenous-mythology-michelle-latimer-on-inconvenient-indian-and-trickster

Michelle Latimer wins twice at TIFF awards, ‘Nomadland’ grabs people’s choice

The Canadian Press

https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2020/09/20/nomadland-wins-peoples-choice-award-at-toronto-international-film-festival/

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/power-privilege-monolithic-ideas/id1070801232?i=1000491733767

TEXT: "Métis/Algonquin filmmaker Michelle Latimer’s urgent documentary..." ALT: "Michelle is of Algonquin, Metis and French heritage from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki) QC." @9m "I grew up around oral storytelling" @14m "we walk with out ancestors in the present" @16m "“I know, even from a very small age, my parents were quite active in encouraging me to look critically, particularly at Christianity, in my own upbringing. We had nuns come into our school -it was a public school not in the catholic school board- they had nuns come into the school and teach Bible studies every friday and my parents ended up taking me out of those classes because they wanted to encourage critical thought around these stories as the only stories to believe.” @19m "To be in relationship to all living things. And to respect those living things like they have a beating heard. And we do believe that." @24m "Its really easy to say our grandparents didn't know any better."

TIFF Interview: Michelle Latimer on Indigenous agency in Inconvenient Indian

https://seventh-row.com/2020/09/22/michelle-latimer-inconvenient-indian-interview/

"She was so smart and articulate that I knew we couldn’t do just one interview with her to discuss both of her TIFF works." "I was thinking about how, as a Native person living in an urban centre, we often go unseen. Unless we’re doing a shawl dance or a round dance at a protest, people don’t even know that we’re there. They consider us regulated to reservations or rural communities when there’s such a huge population of urban Indigenous people."

https://thetelevixen.com/michelle-latimer-talks-trickster/

“I actually did my medical school pre-med courses and interviews. And in that process of waiting to see if I would get into medical school, I was hired as a researcher on a project about Doctors Without Borders. When I was doing research, I met a doctor who, in the middle of his research interview, stopped and grabbed me and said, ‘Why are you going to medical school?’ I said, ‘I want to help people.’” / / “If they are somewhat versed in the Indigenous culture, I would hope that the show challenges stereotypes that maybe the viewer might harbor or have heard about or questioned and challenges some of those and subverts some of those in a way that celebrates our community instead of adding to the negative representation that we have more than enough of already out there.“ /P/ Latimer has used the series to expand hiring among the Indigenous community and pay her own success forward. “I’m trying to create capacity in the Indigenous community. It’s not just about hiring anybody. It’s also about creating training programs and paid opportunities to train people up so that they can move forward and [we can] create an Indigenous cinema future and have an Indigenous crew that we can hire [and] that it’s not just a few people, it’s as many people as any other community might have.”

Our truths lie in stories': Michelle Latimer on Trickster and reclaiming Indigenous storytelling

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1801329731799

Michelle Latimer & Joel Oulette | Trickster interview preview | TIFF 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iobIsbKorC0

9m30s "I grew up every fall ... the men in my community would basically turn a garage into a full-fledged butchery for moose and, it's pretty grotesque but the kids all run around and wait for pepperoni sticks and the dads come out and they've got bloody aprons and that's just moose hunting season"

http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/inconvenient-indian-michelle-latimer

"Latimer, a Métis and Algonquin filmmaker" "“We walk everyday with our ancestors. Our past and our future are right now.”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ahwno9k_5Ru9MDGu5CYQLCNVDiW6AwjYREA5lD8r8Is/edit?usp=sharing

"I do know that our family resided in the Maniwaki/Kitigan Zibi area." "His family had a cabin there, and he resided there and around the Kitigan Zibi/Maniwaki area before he enlisted in World War II. He later migrated to Northern Ontario to find work in the gold mines and to raise his family. My grandfather talked about our family being Indigenous (sometimes he would say Metis) and we always thought he was from Kitigan Zibi, or one of the neighbouring communities."

https://michelle-latimer.medium.com/in-my-own-words-by-michelle-latimer-f940ff4fce3f