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Batoche Storytelling Circle & Symposium

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Title:	Batoche Storytelling Circle & Symposium
Subject:	Storytelling, Batoche, Fish Creek, Tourond, Women, Children, 1885 Resistance
Description:	During the spring of 2008, Parks Canada, the Gabriel Dumont Institute and Friends of Batoche held a two-event entitled "Métis Women's History of Resistance and Survival: Stories of Tourond's Coulee/Fish Creek and Batoche Storytelling Circle & Symposium." The storytelling circle and symposium honoured Métis women's and children's stories from the 1885 Resistance. The organizers felt that this story should be told because more women and children died as a result of the 1885 Resistance and its aftermath than men. The storytelling circle was held at Tourond's Coulee/Fish Creek on April 24, 2008 and included many of the descendants of Madame Josephete Tourond—on whose former land the event was held. Those who shared on this day included Ron Jobin, Elder Rose Fleury, Henri Paulhus, Leah Dorion, Liza Brown, Kim Anderson, Lawrence Barkwell, Gregory Scofield, the late Senator John Boucher, Elder Joanna Blondeau, Margaret Harrison, Jacqueline Guest, Margaret Toround-Townsend, and Maria Campbell. The storytelling symposium was held at Batoche on May 9, 2008 and included discussions by Sherry Farrell Racette, Sarah Carter, Margaret Harrison, Nathalie Kermoal, Brenda Macdougall, Maria Campbell, and Greg Thomas.
Date:	May 9, 2008
Type:	Flash Video
Date of Copyright:	June 22, 2011
Coverage:	Batoche, Saskatchewan