Métis Oral Histories of Tracking Scows on the Athabasca River This collaboration with McMurray Métis Local 1935 gathers oral histories of tracking scows Co-PI on Project: Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau Melanie Dennis Unrau is a poet of mixed European ancestry living on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg. A Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in geography and environmental studies at the University of Regina, she is the author of the literary study The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024) and the poetry collection Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems (The Muses’ Company, 2013). Melanie is a former editor of The Goose journal and Geezmagazine. Current projects include co-editing the “Workers of the Warming World Unite” poetry anthology of climate-related work poetry with Fernwood Publishing.
(flat-bottomed boats) on the Athabasca River (1867 – 1916). The project challenges dominant
narratives about the development of Canada’s extractive industries by centring Métis accounts of
how they fashioned their livelihood practices at this time of colonization and industrialization.
Whereas Métis trackers have featured in stories told by outsiders, this project asks why and how
Métis people tell their own stories about tracking.
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