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Giroux Monique ??Giving Them Back Their Spirit ? Multiculturalism and Resurgence at a Metis Cultural Festival MUSICultures - ??Giving Them Back Their Spirit ? Multiculturalism and Resurgence at a Metis Cultural Festival MONIQUE GIROUX Abstract Metisfest was a large annual festival that ??from its conception in until its cancellation in ?? brought the Metis Nation together through ?ddling jigging and other cultural activities While the event was constructed as apolitical Metis elder Duke Redbird suggested in We Are Métis that cultural activities can in fact bring about political change because they are non-threatening to the dominant culture This essay addresses this seeming contradiction arguing that while the event adopted the language of multiculturalism i e language that is non-threatening to the Canadian mainstream in practice Metisfest used an Indigenous-centred approach to cultural celebration ??an approach that prioritized Metis resurgence In this way Metisfest accomplished important political goals Résumé Le Metisfest festival métis était un grand festival annuel qui de sa conception en à son annulation en réunissait les membres de la Nation Métis autour du violon de la gigue et d ? autres activités culturelles Bien que cet événement ait été conçu pour être apolitique l ? a? né métis Duke Redbird suggérait dans son livre We Are Métis que les activités culturelles ont en fait la capacité d ? amener des changements politiques parce que la culture dominante ne se sent pas menacée par elles Cet article se penche sur cette apparente contradiction en soutenant que bien que cet événement ait adopté le langage du multiculturalisme c ? est-à-dire un langage n ? étant pas menaçant pour le courant majoritaire canadien en pratique le Metisfest avait un caractère de célébration culturelle de l ? autochtonie ??approche qui donnait la priorité à la résurgence des Métis De cette façon le Metisfest a concrétisé d ? importants objectifs politiques My people will sleep for one hundred years and when they awake it will be the artists who give them back their spirit ?? Louis Riel - The words of Louis Riel quoted above are often repeated at Metis events pointing to the importance of cultural activities to the contemporary Metis Nation Although there has been some tension between Metis who CGiroux Multiculturalism and Resurgence at a Metis Cultural Festival feel that promoting cultural activities takes attention away from the bigger issues facing the Metis Nation ??issues such as political rights and land claims ??for many the support and promotion of cultural practices is the key to reclaiming Metis pride and independence see for example Redbird For this reason some Metis believe that the Metis Nation should ??attack on a cultural rather than political level ? Redbird and that re- establishing Metis cultural vitality can be a ?rst step in reclaiming political rights As Metis elder Duke Redbird argues nurturing cultural life can be ??a viable vehicle for change simply because it is a non-threatening activity to most sectors of the establishment ? in this way nurturing cultural life can be an