METIS MIMWAYR BWET
(METIS MEMORY BOX)
 
The articles incorporated into the Memory Box are records of a proud race of people know 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.  The Medicine Wheel is decorated with arctic wolf and horse hair.  The Sachem Wand is adorned with prairie wolf.  This Memory Box also contains a replica of the Metis flag, a photo of a Metis hunter from the late 1800's and teeth of a prairie wolf.  The Metis are known as the "Flower Beadwork People."  The Knife Sheath and Medicine Pouch (containing sage, tobacco and cedar), are embellished with floral beadwork.  Also included are red, blue, yellow and brown 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