METIS MIMWAYR BWET
                        METIS MEMORY BOX
 
The articles incorporated into the Memory Box are records of a proud race of people known as Metis.  Members of the Metis Nation today continue to defend, honour and celebrate their unique history, heritage and culture handed down to them by their remarkable ancestors.
 
This Memory Box contains a vignette of Metis culture arranged on a background of red velvet.  It's contents represent la Fam (women).  The Lodge Shield is decorated with the fur of a Hudson Bay Seal which represents woman's power, an abalone shell and a medicine pouch (containing sage, tobacco and cedar).  This Memory Box also contains a replica of the Metis flag, a photo of a Metis Kookum (grandmother).  Her name is Marie Allery Boyer.  She is the great grandmother of Clydette Boyer.  The Metis are known as "The Flower Beadwork People."  A sample of the beadwork sewn onto leather is included.  Also incorporated are samples of beads used during the trade years (1800's), sinew that was used for sewing, deer horn buttons and red, blue, yellow, brown and white porcupine quills which are often used to decorate clothing and other useful articles.  The Metis Sash is recognized as a symbol of Metis identity.  Today, the Metis proudly wear the sash with confidence, pride and dignity.
 
"My people will sleep for one hundred years and it will be the artists who awaken them."
--Louis Riel, 1885