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For far too long, the Red River Métis have either been excluded from health literature or represented only in Pan-Indigenous research, contributing to considerable underrepresentation and misrepresentation. This project seeks to contribute to distinctions-based Red River Métis health research literature by examining the benefits and impact of Red River Métis youth engaging in Métis cultural activities on health and well-being during Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF) Culture Camps. This work embodies relationality by upholding the 6 R’s of Indigenous Research (Relationship, Relevance, Respect, Representation, Reciprocity, and Responsibility) through a decolonizing Red River Métis methodology inspired by the work of Dr. Judith Bartlett. A narrative literature review was conducted to summarize the existing research and silences on the impacts of engaging Indigenous youth in cultural activities in Canada. Various culturally oriented arts-based methods (mural painting and sharing circles) and other Western-developed data-gathering tools (surveys, camp evaluations, field notes) were analyzed using an adapted Reflexive Thematic Analysis guided by our Red River Métis Methodology. In a Kitchen Table Talk, we bring together the interrelated thematic results from Work that has Come Before (literature review) and What We Learned (analysis results) from the MMF Culture Camps. Relationality is identified as a connecting factor between youth, the land, peers, family, and Elders, as positively beneficial to one’s well-being by participating in cultural activities that contribute to personal development and cultural continuity. Relationality is a value, a lived and practiced concept that youth experience when participating in cultural activities that influence well-being. This project connects relationality as a dominant theme and embodied value in this study to uphold Respect, Reciprocity, Responsibility, Representation, Relevance, and Relationship. This project is intended to contri

Today, as it has always been, Kitayatisuk (Elders) are critical to the health and survival of our communities. This research project sought to understand the experience of Kitayatisuk as they come to know traditional, empirical, and sacred knowledge while acquiring wisdom and insight. A nation-specific methodology was devised with Métis Niheyaw and Dakota (MND) teachings, teachers, and Indigenous scholars while relying heavily on my lived experience as a Métis Niheyaw woman sharing life, ceremony and language with a Dakota husband and ceremonial leader. I employed Keeoukaywin, the Visiting Way (Gaudet, 2018) to conceptualize a Métis Niheyaw-specific approach to collecting stories from four Dakota, Anishinaabe, Cree, Blackfoot Lakota/settler Kitayatisuk, living in Manitoba. Thematic analysis was conducted by borrowing a concept from the vision quest ceremony, when I spent four days in the boreal forest, beside the lake, in solitude. There I designed and sewed a ribbon skirt that expresses the Métis Niheyaw Dakota (MND) methodology, findings and subsequent meanings. This research found that in the process of coming to know, Kitayatisuk are prepared through a childhood that provides a strong foundation in contrast to traumatic events that are followed by healing. Kitayatisuk evolve through experiences that produce a belief in sacredness, bestow a responsibility to help others, inspire a willingness to act on sacred guidance, and with the support of mentors and family. Relevant teachings and experiences that contribute to their ability to help others are found in time spent on the land, ceremonies, and serving the community. This research will better understand how Kitayatisuk come to know and how we can support them.

Race, ethnicity, and Indigenous identity (REI) data collection, a strategy to address health and healthcare inequities, is emerging in Canada. Traditional teachings remind us to embrace our Indigenous identities. Yet, Indigenous identity within healthcare is often connected with racism, and mistreatment; an important context surrounding REI data. As Manitoba implements REI data collection at point of healthcare, reflecting on historical and current narratives surrounding REI data collection is beneficial. This dissertation advances collective knowledge of Indigenous understanding and experiences of REI data collection. As an Anishinaabekwe, researcher, and Manitoba REI team member, I bring experiential knowledge and relationships to this dissertation. Informed by the Contemporary Indigenous Empowerment Theory (CIET), this dissertation highlights relationships of power, social justice, and Indigenous identity/voices. A qualitative research design includes four methods identified below with key findings. Story-gathering with 20 self-identifying First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in Manitoba opened space for Indigenous voices to inform our understanding of REI data collection and its impacts. Their meaning of Indigenous identity, experiences in healthcare, and perspectives on, and best practice for, REI data collection, informed how self-declaration of Indigenous identity is a highly complex matter. An environmental scan of REI data collection in Manitoba was guided by CIET to highlight relations of power, social justice, and Indigenous voices, deepening our knowledge of REI data collection. Creating awareness and evidence for health organizations, researchers, practitioners, patients, and the public to understand the current context of REI data collection in Manitoba. A scoping review examined how Indigenous identity, voice, and methodologies are upheld in health research. Findings suggest identity transparency of researchers and research participants requires str

L’article explore les rapports entre action et fiction sous l’angle de l’intelligence pratique. Invitant à cultiver une telle intelligence, les romans de Rabelais peuvent être lus comme des romans de conseil : parce qu’ils formulent ou suggèrent des prescriptions d’ordre éthique et diététique, mais aussi parce qu’ils donnent à voir l’efficacité de la ruse, la « panurgie », soit l’art d’échapper à l’ennemi et parfois de le détruire. Ils représentent enfin la prudence, suprême vertu dont Rabelais propose une relecture originale qui met en valeur la qualité d’écoute plutôt que la virtuosité du prudens de la tradition aristotélicienne. Loin de l’héroïsme quasi divin d’un Guillaume Du Bellay, l’intelligence pratique est ainsi représentée au plus près de la condition humaine., This paper examines the links between fiction and action from the standpoint of practical intelligence. Rabelais’ novels invite to cultivate such an intelligence, and thus may be considered as providing advice to the reader – in so far as they give or suggest dietetic or ethic prescriptions, and as they show the efficiency of cunning or panourgia, i.e. the art of escaping from – and sometimes destroy – an enemy. They finally describe the supreme virtue, prudence, of which Rabelais gives an innovative interpretation, emphasising the ability to listen rather than the virtuosity of the prudent man. Far from Guillaume Du Bellay’s almost divine heroism, practical intelligence is described as close to human condition., Dossier « Manuels et modes d'emploi :comment la littérature dispose à l'action », dir. Adrien Chassain, Éléonore Devevey et Estelle Mouton-Rovira, info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Motherland is a series of stories and works which pay tribute to my mother’s Métis lineage. I am using a personal lens of lived experience, my own and that of my family, to address historical realities of Métis disconnection, dislocation and enforced assimilation. I have drawn from Indigenous/Métis methodologies and epistemologies such as visiting Elders, establishing relationships, acknowledging visions, and embracing stories as medicine. To develop this story, I interviewed my family members and asked them questions about what their lives as Métis women and girls has been like. The responses to these queries are woven into the fabric of the exhibit Motherland, which is comprised of Nia Mamaa Awaa, Monuments, Northwest and In My Blood I Stand. These interconnected works use textiles, sculpture, fur, beads, deer hide, and embroidery to take the viewer on a journey through concerns about land and belonging, identity and loss, and meditations on absence/presence. These themes and questions punctuate the entirety of the exhibit and are the threads which connect one piece to the other.

Through visiting with 13 self-identifying Métis women born between 1949 and 1969 whose work began to appear in the late 1970s and raising our awareness of their contributions, connections, motivations, and scholarship, we can enhance our understanding of how the Métis grandmothers and aunties shaped their fields in Métis scholarship and have created space for future Métis women to thrive in the academy. Using a wahkootowin theoretical framework and the intertwining Michif methodology that combines the Keeoukaywin, Lii Taab di Faam Michif, and Kishkeeyihtamaaniwan Kaa-natohtamihk methodologies, 11 points of erasure were identified by the grandmothers and aunties in their lived experiences. These points include colonial attempts at erasure through experiences with colonial education, racism, whiteness, and the pressure to hide; constantly being measured by a colonial yardstick assessing whether the grandmothers and aunties were Métis, Indigenous, or educated enough; and colonial institutions’ power to silence through Indigenous umbrella publishing, the struggle to publish Métis-specific research, and issues obtaining research funding for Métis-specific projects. As an act of wahkootowin, the grandmothers and aunties have advice in their role as knowledge keepers 1) disregard colonial pressures, they shared that permission to refuse and relocate for the betterment of their families in dire situations that will not change is inherently Métis, 2) the importance of connecting with other Métis scholars and helpers, especially Métis women, 3) be empowered by who you are through staying true to yourself, including your ancestors, embracing your teachings, looking after yourself, and loving what you do. The grandmothers and aunties within this study knowledge have empowered subsequent waves of Métis women in the academy by showing what is possible while arming them with strategies to persevere.

Manitoba began the 1870s as an Indigenous province, entering Confederation in the aftermath of the well-studied period of the Red River Resistance of 1870. By the 1880s, Manitoba’s power structures and land were largely in settler hands, and the province was being promoted as a fertile land of opportunity for immigrants. This dissertation is concerned with the years of transition during the 1870s where settlers immigrated to Manitoba and through the mechanisms of laws, immigration, and violence asserted control over the region. The newspapers and immigration literature downplayed the violence and dispossession that was occurring while depicting an optimistic view of Manitoba intended to recruit immigrants. Settler fears and anxieties about life in Manitoba shaped the newspaper coverage of the first decade of the new province. The myth of Canadian sovereignty over Manitoba in the 1870s was repeated until the settler population was large enough to make the claim believable. During the 1870s the small settler population in Manitoba worked to grow their numbers through immigration and to change how land was understood and claimed, and much of this work was done in the pages of the local newspapers.

Geographers, especially those working in developing country contexts have often encountered improvisation because it plays a critical social and cultural role. Engaging with James Scott's (1998) conceptualisation of metis – contextual, practical and flexible skills and knowledge – and techne – universal technical knowledge – this paper furthers the geographical scholarship on the politics of improvisation. The paper makes three main contributions. First, using metis and techne, it provides a new conceptual repertoire for making sense of improvisation. The paper places improvisation at the nexus of metis and techne. Second, it pushes the understanding of the morality of improvisation by attending to the role of relationships of power in morally and materially legitimising improvisations. Third, although states and experts celebrate and actively engage with improvisation, this paper demonstrates that they also create limits and boundaries for improvisation. These limits demonstrate a contradiction in experts’ actions. This paper is based on a nine months ethnographic research on two energy projects carried out in 2012-13 in five villages in Bihar, an eastern state of India. It used participant observations, home tours, interviews and group discussions.

2 2 Abstract Metis people live with disability and chronic illness which is largely under reported and undocumented in Canada. In an age of Truth and Reconciliation, this thesis demonstrates the lived experience of the same Metis and appeals to all Canadians to understand Metis life as unique and deserving of culturally relevant support and health services in order to allow for Metis self- actualization. By sharing beadwork sewn by the author and their late mother, this thesis demonstrates wealth of knowledge available within the Metis embodied experience with chronic illness and disability. Feminist disability theory and Manitoba Metis Federation’s (MMF) Wellness Models are an excellent way to explore the theoretical undertones of the family’s beadwork completed while living with disability and chronic illness. Through storytelling and beading this thesis utilizes MMF’s Wellness Models to highlight the importance of dialogue with disabled Metis people. Non-Indigenous people can use this knowledge sharing to understand how Canada should meet Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action for Indigenous health.

Between 1900 and 1960, the health of the prairie Metis was worse in comparison to their non-Metis counterparts. This is obvious when one examines the rates of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis [TB]. For example, in the early 1900s, Henry Gabeler, a trader who worked between Shoal Lake and Lake Manitoba, MB, estimated “Nine out of ten half-breeds die[d] with [TB].” The disease continued to be an ongoing problem and twenty years later, Dr. Stewart, Superintendent of the Manitoba Sanatorium, reported all “races [were] hit hard [by the disease]” but it was especially problematic among those “of mixed Indian blood.” TB remained an ongoing issue, and in 1932, the death rate from TB was 8x higher among the Metis. The situation in Manitoba was not unique and it was estimated the prevalence of the disease among them in Alberta was 90%. Instead of examining why they were experiencing elevated rates of disease and poor health, some historical physicians and scholars argued they were an inferior people and were responsible for their own health disparities. These men failed to acknowledge how colonialism and actions of the government and society contributed to the increased disease burden. Racism and displacement were the primary reasons why they were socially-politically-economically marginalized and experienced a cycle of poverty and poor health. To date, no scholar has attempted to focus specifically on their health and infectious disease between 1900 and 1960. During this time, they had not only been displaced from their traditional lands, they were an invisible people that became an “economically and socially disadvantaged group,” which influenced their health. Instead of acknowledging their role, governments (federal, provincial and territorial) and society blamed them for their own health disparities, arguing they were an inferior people. This study examines how colonialism and the actions of the various levels of government resulted with cycle of poverty and poor

[ES] El aumento en el uso del software de Dinámica de Fluidos Computacional para diferentes aplicaciones aeronáuticas ha llevado a la necesidad de continuar reduciendo el tiempo necesario para ejecutar las simulaciones. La potencia computacional ha comenzado a reducir su tasa de crecimiento en los últimos años, por lo tanto, es necesario estudiar una forma diferente de reducir esos tiempos. Como se ha descubierto que el método de descomposición de malla óptimo depende del problema estudiado, utilizando un modelo 3D de un ala con una envergadura de 3m, este estudio utiliza diferentes métodos disponibles en ANSYS Fluent para investigar su influencia en las simulaciones ejecutadas con el software. Su objetivo es estudiar la escalabilidad del problema y mostrar una guía sobre el método óptimo para el problema. Los resultados de esta investigación mostraron que los métodos de descomposición de la malla no solo influyen en el tiempo necesario para realizar la simulación sino también de otras maneras, como la velocidad de convergencia. METIS mostró los mejores resultados al trabajar con un bajo número de procesadores y una convergencia más rápida, mientras que los métodos basados ​​en la geometría elegidos específicamente demostraron ser capaces de ofrecer una escalabilidad tan buena como METIS para un mayor número de procesadores., [EN] The increase in usage of Computational Fluid Dynamics software for different aeronautical applications has led to the necessity of continue reducing the time needed for running the simulations. Computational power has begun to reduce its rate of growth in the recent years thus, a different way of reducing those times need to be studied. As the optimal mesh decomposition method has been found out to be problem dependent, using a 3D model of a wing with a span of 3m, this study uses different methods available in ANSYS Fluent to investigate its influence on the simulations run with the software. It aims to study the scalability of the problem and show a guide on the optimal method for the problem. The results of this investigation showed that the mesh decomposition methods do not only influence the simulation in the time needed for performing the simulation but also in other ways such as the rate of convergence. METIS showed the best results when working with a low number of processors and faster convergence while specifically-chosen geometry-based methods showed to be able to give as good scalability as METIS for a larger number of processors.

The relations of power between healthcare-related institutions and the professionals that interact with them are changing. Generally, the institutions are gaining the upper hand. Consequently, the intellectual abilities necessary for professionals to pursue the internal goods of healthcare are changing as well. A concrete case is the struggle over sickness benefits in Sweden, in which the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA) and physicians are important stakeholders. The SSIA has recently consolidated its power over the sickness certificates that doctors issue for their patients. The result has been a stricter gatekeeping of sickness benefits. In order to combat the inroads made by state institutions into sickness certification, and into the sphere of medical practice, some doctors have developed cunning "techniques" to maximize the chance to have their sickness certificates accepted by the SSIA. This article attempts to demonstrate that cunning intelligence-the ability of the weak to "outsmart" a stronger adversary-plays an important role in the practice of medicine. Cunning intelligence is not merely a defective form of prudence (phronesis), nor is it simply an instance of instrumental reason (techne), but rather an ability that occupies a distinct place among the intellectual abilities generally ascribed to professionals.

My dissertation analyzes European families who joined Native communities in the seventeenth century in the northeast of North America and explores how the lives of their descendants were shaped by the racial and imperial wars of the eighteenth century. This research elucidates the lived experience of people who moved in between European and Native Worlds, who I describe as “colonial ghosts”. These families disappeared from the colonial archives both because of their absence from the Acadian villages and the limits of imperial reach in the Early Americas. This research revises Acadian historiography and especially models of family genealogy by valorizing lived experience and community belonging over ancestry for these Europeans. The entanglements that caused these Europeans to become invisible in the seventeenth century become visible when their community adoption, language, and fishing practices are revealed. An interdisciplinary approach that draws upon archaeology, court records, and maps, as well as Native American fishing practices reveals the vibrant lives they lived in a Native World and the spaces that existed for people to live at the interstices of empire in the Atlantic World. These colonial ghosts were “resurrected” in the eighteenth century by the English empire as their descendants faced increasingly rigid racial politics as they were categorized as either ‘White” or “Indian.” As revenants (the French word for ghosts which translates to “the returned”), the descendants of these specters were either still members of the Mi’kmaq community and suffered removal to Indian reservations or were categorized as Acadians and deported from their lands as refugees. The Acadian-Mi’kmaq case study in my dissertation serves as a model of the historical category of “colonial ghosts” in other parts of the Americas and contributes to both the scholarship of colonial empires and native peoples in the Atlantic by combining these fields for the Northeast and revealing the w

The mètis, which in ancient Greece designated the intelligence to survive –with its practical knowledge–, was dismissed when a new modality of knowledge emerged: the demonstrative knowledge (logos). It will only be reestablished in modern times. But, we wonder, is this mètis equivalent to the one of ancient times? This is what we will focus on by describing, first, the change from the ancient social link, organized by the mythical discourse, to the social bond that prevailed between Antiquity and Modern times. Then, by studying the present context (postmodern) marked by the return and progressive domination of the mètis. We will thereafter decipher the possible effects on the language, the subjects and the social link in Lebanon, to finish by analyzing the effects it seems to produce at the heart of the analytic experience., La mètis, que designaba en la Grecia antigua la inteligencia para sobrevivir —con su saber práctico—, fue destituida cuando apareció una nueva modalidad del saber: el saber demostrativo (logos). Solamente será rehabilitada en la época contemporánea. ¿Pero está nueva mètis será equivalente a la de los antiguos? Es lo que veremos, ante todo, describiendo el paso del lazo social antiguo, organizado por el discurso mítico, al lazo social que prevalece entre la Antigüedad y la Época Moderna; y, luego, detallando el contexto actual (posmoderno) del retorno de la dominación progresiva de la mètis. Entonces descifraremos sus consecuencias sobre la lengua, los sujetos y el lazo social libanés, antes de examinar los efectos que parece producir en el corazón de la experiencia analítica., La mètis, qui désignait en Grèce antique l’intelligence de survie –avec son savoir pratique–, fut destituée lorsqu’apparut une nouvelle modalité du savoir: le savoir démonstratif (logos). Elle ne sera réhabilitée qu’à l’époque contemporaine. Mais cette mètis-ci, est-elle équivalente à celle des anciens ? C’est ce que nous allons voir, d’abord en décrivant le passage du lien social ancien, organisé par le discours mythique, au lien social qui prévalut entre l’Antiquité et l’époque Moderne ; puis en détaillant le contexte actuel (postmoderne) du retour et de la domination progressive de la mètis. Nous en déchiffrerons alors les conséquences sur la langue, les sujets et le lien social libanais, avant d’examiner les effets qu’elle semble produire au cœur de l’expérience analytique.

This article proposes to analyze journalism as a form of knowledge linked to the deciphering of evidence and the establishment of hypotheses that guide the investigation through the inferential process. The idea is recovered that there is a practical intelligence based on inference and anticipation that the Greeks called metis and that marked both the beginnings of medicine and rhetoric. The connections between these ancient forms of deciphering the signs and the concepts of index and abduction in Peirce's semiotics are also established, analyzing the place that habit, doubt and belief have when guiding inferences. Finally, these concepts are put into action by analyzing journalistic investigations into the sexual abuse of Catholic clergy in Boston, recounted in Tom McCarthy's movie Spotlight.KEY WORDS: indexes, semiosis, metis, inference, abduction, journalism., Este artículo propone analizar el periodismo como una forma de conocimiento ligada al desciframiento de indicios y al establecimiento de hipótesis que guien la investigación a través del proceso inferencial. Se recupera la idea de que existe una inteligencia p´ráctica basada en la inferencia y la anticipación que los griegos llamaron metis y que marcó tanto los inicios de la medicina como de la retórica. También se establecen las conexiones entre estas formas antiguas de descriframiento de los signos y los conceptos de índice y de abducción en la semiótica de Peirce, analizando el lugar que el hábito, la duda y la creencia tienen a la hora de orientar las inferencias. Finalmente, se ponen en acción estos conceptos mediante el análisis de las investigaciones periodísticas sobre los abusos sexuales del clero católico en Boston, relatadas en la película Spotlight, de Tom McCarthy.

This research exemplifies the important role Indigenous art practices have within the development and maintenance of identity formation whilst practicing away from home and community. The artwork created within this research has come from experiences of carrying artistic and cultural practices from Canada to Australia. It was done as a response to the complex challenges which arise from establishing identity and cultural practices through instances of displacement. I discuss the value of working cross-culturally between various nations, and the influence it has had on my creative project. The artwork and research provide examples of how engagement with Indigenous arts practices can help foster and maintain cultural connections unaffected by geographical location or place of practice. My research culminated in six bodies of work: Ground in Stone, an installation of stones gathered across Melbourne and Canada, Spirit Threads, a hanging installation of threads embroidered with stones and seed beads, Flora, a series of seven beaded works, Bad Medicine, one-hundred hand sewn pouches, Blak Apothecary, an installation of living plants and antique apothecary bottles, and a series of photographic documentation of these works and their processes. These works have been presented as photographs in the thesis and exhibited throughout the course of the research. The creative works are related through a focus on materiality and Indigenous knowledge, particularly focusing on native plant knowledge and botanicals. Through these artworks I ask why Indigenous art is often defined as either contemporary or traditional. I reflect on these terms in relation to Western ideology and perceived notions surrounding Indigenous representation, cultural authenticity, validity, and values of Indigenous artistic practices. I contemplate ways in which I can rebuke these ideas through the use of art. I consider how other Indigenous artists and researchers are using artwork to foster identity and as

After years of existing in jurisdictional limbo, the Métis have finally been handed down a Supreme Court declaration affirming that they too, alongside the Inuit and First Nations peoples, fall under the federal government’s jurisdiction over “Indians and Lands reserved for the Indians” as outlined under Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867. While the April 2016 decision in Daniels v. Canada did remove a significant obstacle for the Métis in the pursuit of rights recognition and meaningful negotiations with the federal government, the decision is worth unpacking. This thesis critically examines the Daniels decision from a Métis and decolonizing lens, and explores the potential outcomes and implications of this decision for the Métis. What this thesis finds that this decision has been achieved by relying on colonial concepts of history, Métis identity, as well as colonial expansionist and assimilationist goals from centuries ago. As for the future of this decision, this thesis finds that it remains largely unsolved, but holds great potential- despite the core of the decision being purely about jurisdiction.

The mètis, which in ancient Greece designated the intelligence to survive –with its practical knowledge–, was dismissed when a new modality of knowledge emerged: the demonstrative knowledge (logos). It will only be reestablished in modern times. But, we wonder, is this mètis equivalent to the one of ancient times? This is what we will focus on by describing, first, the change from the ancient social link, organized by the mythical discourse, to the social bond that prevailed between Antiquity and Modern times. Then, by studying the present context (postmodern) marked by the return and progressive domination of the mètis. We will thereafter decipher the possible effects on the language, the subjects and the social link in Lebanon, to finish by analyzing the effects it seems to produce at the heart of the analytic experience., La mètis, que designaba en la Grecia antigua la inteligencia para sobrevivir —con su saber práctico—, fue destituida cuando apareció una nueva modalidad del saber: el saber demostrativo (logos). Solamente será rehabilitada en la época contemporánea. ¿Pero está nueva mètis será equivalente a la de los antiguos? Es lo que veremos, ante todo, describiendo el paso del lazo social antiguo, organizado por el discurso mítico, al lazo social que prevalece entre la Antigüedad y la Época Moderna; y, luego, detallando el contexto actual (posmoderno) del retorno de la dominación progresiva de la mètis. Entonces descifraremos sus consecuencias sobre la lengua, los sujetos y el lazo social libanés, antes de examinar los efectos que parece producir en el corazón de la experiencia analítica.

Geographers, especially those working in developing country contexts have often encountered improvisation because it plays a critical social and cultural role. Engaging with anthropologist James Scott’s conceptualisation of metis – contextual, practical and flexible skills and knowledge – and techne – universal technical knowledge – this paper furthers the geographical scholarship on the politics of improvisation. The paper makes three main contributions. First, using metis and techne, it provides a new conceptual repertoire for making sense of improvisation. The paper places improvisation at the nexus of metis and techne. Second, it pushes the understanding of the morality of improvisation by attending to the role of relationships of power in morally and materially legitimising improvisations. Third, although states and experts celebrate and actively engage with improvisation, this paper demonstrates that they also create limits and boundaries for improvisation. These limits demonstrate a contradiction in experts’ actions. This paper is based on a nine months ethnographic research on two energy projects carried out in 2012–13 in five villages in Bihar, an eastern state of India. It used participant observations, home tours, interviews and group discussions.

Divided in two parts, this thesis includes a theoretical essay followed by a creative work. We begin with a brief overview of the state of First Nations literature, specifically fiction, written in French or English in Canada, and how this literary production and its critical reception have evolved over the years. We then focus our attention on three specific themes: post-colonialism, decolonization and resilience, with a specific interest in how First Nations and Franco-Manitoban Métis relate to these concepts by either adopting them, rejecting them or creating new ones. Inspired by our research on these subjects and our readings of works of various First Nations authors, we propose, in the second part of this dissertation, a collection of seven short stories entitled Et elle sourit…

This thesis investigates issues of representation and the social identity of the colonized by conducting a textual analysis of a fictive, construct that I dub the halfbreed girl, and of the ways in which selected metisse writers, poets, artists and performers respond to that stereotype in their respective works. Using methodologies in literature and the visual/performing arts, this thesis interrogates matters of social process: specifically, settler-colonialism’s discursive management of the social identities – in effect, the social place – of metis women, and how metis women negotiate this highly raced and gendered identity space. Emphasizing Canadian contexts, the images examined are drawn from North American settler-colonial pop-culture texts produced in the late nineteenth- through the early twentyfirst centuries; the metisse responses to them are gathered from the same time period. The thesis includes American-produced images of the halfbreed girl due to the historic relationship between the two nations and the significant consumption of mass-produced American pop-culture media by Canadians – historically and currently. The first tier of the study demonstrates how the figure of the halfbreed girl is rendered abject through textual strategies that situate her at the intersection of the dichotomies, civilization/savagery and Madonna/whore, generating the racialized Princess/squaw polemic. The logic of the Princess/squaw polemic further reticulates into three sub-binaries: White/Indian, mimesis/regression, and naturalness/degeneracy, compounding the abjection of the halfbreed girl, who oscillates along and between these binaries, relegating her to a state of perpetual liminality in the settler-colonial master narrative. The thesis also finds that these textual strategies tend to reflect the processes of social abjection to which metis women were subjected in actuality, as exemplified by the deteriorating social status of historical metisses in nineteenth

El agua potable es un recurso indispensable para la vida, es un producto de primera necesidad para la actividad doméstica, así como para las actividades urbanas, agrícolas e industriales. La disponibilidad del agua potable está ligada al bienestar y prosperidad de cualquier sociedad, pero ésta es un recurso escaso y sumado a los efectos del cambio climático en las aguas naturales, obligan a que se deba gestionar de una manera eficiente. De ahí la importancia que cobra la buena gestión de las Redes de Abastecimiento de Agua Potable (RDAP). El principal problema que afrontan las RDAP es el agua no registrada (ANR), es decir el sub-registro de los contadores y las fugas en las tuberías, acometidas y unidades de almacenamiento. El control de éstas pérdidas en los sistemas de abastecimiento genera un aumento en el rendimiento de la red, así como un mejor aprovechamiento por parte de la población. Una de las soluciones para contrarrestar éstas pérdidas es la sectorización de la red. La sectorización, implica la subdivisión de la red en subredes con una entrada de agua controlada llamadas District Metered Areas (DMA). La búsqueda de una sectorización óptima para definir los DMA es un tema desafiante y crucial en el análisis, planificación y gestión de las redes de distribución de agua. El mayor beneficio de su implementación es el aumento de la facilidad para detectar cualquier anormalidad dentro de la red debido a la reducción de su tamaño, además, no sólo permite aplicar técnicas particulares de control de fugas, sino permite la implementación de modelos de gestión. El presente estudio trata sobre obtener una sectorización óptima para el sector sur de la RDAP de la ciudad de Santa Marta, Colombia. En donde se busca que todos los DMA cumplan con la semejanza de la demanda y uniformidad en las presiones minimizando a su vez el agua extraída desde el embalse principal que alimenta la red, es decir optimizando el agua disponible. Para ello se utilizan los algoritmos implemen, Water is an indispensable resource for life, it is a product of prime necessity for domestic activity, as well as for urban, agricultural and industrial activities. The availability of water is linked to the well-being and prosperity of any society, but this is a scarce resource and added to the effects of climate change in natural waters, require that it must be managed in an efficient way. Hence the importance of the good management of Water Distribution Networks (WDN). The main problem faced by WDN is unregistered water, that is, meters sub-registration and leaks in pipelines, connections and storage units. The control of these losses in the supply systems generates an increase in the performance of the network, as well as a better use by the population. One of the solutions to counter these losses is the segmentation of the network. Segmentation involves sub-dividing the network into subnets with a controlled water input named District Metered Areas (DMA). The search for optimal segmentation aimed at defining DMA is a challenging and crucial issue in the analysis, planning and management of WDN. The greatest benefit of its implementation is the increase of the facility to detect any abnormality within the network due to the reduction of its size, furthermore, it not only allows to apply particular leaks control techniques, but allows the implementation of management models. The objective of the present study is obtaining an optimal segmentation for the southern sector of the WDN of the Colombian city Santa Marta. In which it is sought that all the DMA comply with demand similarity and pressure uniformity minimizing the water extracted from the main reservoir that feeds the network, that is to say optimizing the available water. For this purpose, the algorithms implemented in METIS are used, which are based on the multilevel recursive-bisection, multi-level k-way, and multi-constraint partitioning schemes.

The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) is one the first three scientific instruments on ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). At the time of anticipated first light in 2025, METIS will provide diffraction limited imaging, coronagraphy and medium resolution slit spectroscopy in the 3-19 micrometers range, as well as high resolution (R approximately equals to 100, 000) integral field spectroscopy from 2.9-5.3 micrometers. The unique combination of these observing capabilities with an angular resolution of 0.020 sec, and the sensitivity provided by a 40m aperture, make METIS a very powerful tool to study the infrared sky - from objects in our Solar system, the Galactic center, brown dwarfs, evolved stars, and massive stellar clusters to active galactic nuclei (AGN), local starbursts, transient events, and luminous infrared galaxies at intermediate redshifts. Its main scientific focus, however, will be on the study of proto-planetary disks and exoplanets. In this paper, we describe the instrument concept and performance. We discuss the scientific performance of METIS with respect to AKARI, and elaborate on the relevance of the AKARI archive with respect to the METIS observing program., Meeting Information: The 4th AKARI International Conference: The Cosmic Wheel and the Legacy of the AKARI archive: from galaxies and stars to planets and life (October 17-20, 2017. The University of Tokyo), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Physical characteristics: Original contains color illustrations, 会議情報: 第4回「あかり」国際会議 (2017年10月17-20日. 東京大学), 文京区, 東京, 形態: カラー図版あり

This thesis examines the experiences of three men, two First Nations and one Metis who participated in the creation of a Ribbon Shirt at the Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre (SKHC) in Sudbury, Ontario. This research demonstrated how specific programming can nurture a connection to traditional ways in urban First Nations and Metis men and promote an embracing of First Nations identities. This study utilized both Phenomenology and elements of Photovoice research methodologies to gather participant narratives, this highlighted the lack of services specifically for men and the benefits of focused programing that included cultural teachings.

The artist’s own, female, Métis body reclaims space, history, and family stories that focus on a direct matriarchal line of five women. By embodying a creative interpretation of their physical labour, through slow conscious work, or by considering the body as a form of measurement and an open channel of communication, their life stories become a point of expressing and repairing lost homelands. The artist takes process-heavy and repetitive techniques, both as time-based approaches, and translates them into a physical experience of honouring the lives of those women.

Les gens libres, ces anciens employés des compagnies de fourrures installés à demeure dans le « pays indien » à la fin de leurs engagements, et prenant souvent pour épouses des femmes autochtones, ont traditionnellement été associés dans la littérature à l’émergence des Métis au Canada. Jusqu’à maintenant, les gens libres sont restés pratiquement absents de l’historiographie couvrant la grande région située entre la Baie James et Montréal. Cette étude vise essentiellement à documenter la présence des gens libres dans la traite des fourrures de ce territoire au XIXe siècle, ainsi qu’à reconstituer leur mode de vie dans une perspective ethnohistorique. Dans un deuxième temps, nous nous questionnons sur le rôle qu’ont pu jouer les familles de gens libres du sud de notre aire d’étude dans l’émergence d’une identité métisse contemporaine dans l’ouest du Québec. En utilisant une pluralité de types de sources – archivistiques ou orales – nous démontrons dans ce mémoire comment les gens libres ont connu des conditions favorables à leur développement dans le sud du territoire à l’étude, mais aussi comment une partie de leur descendance mobilise cet héritage pour se concevoir comme partie prenante de l’autochtonie métisse.

In Canada, Métis cultural restoration continues to advance. Food practices and protocols, from the vantage point of Métis women who were traditionally responsible for domestic work, qualify as important subjects worthy of study because food and food work are integral components of family health and well-being. This qualitative grounded theory study explored Métis cultural food in Manitoba, Canada, with the intent to honour Métis women. Twenty-one in-depth interviews were conducted with Métis residents of urban Winnipeg and southern rural Manitoba. Results indicate that women were traditionally the keepers of culinary knowledge and practices in Métis families, and were highly resourceful in feeding large families and often other community members. Traditional foods were often land-based (wild and cultivated), and frequently enhanced by market foods. There is a strong sense of history, pride, identity, and desire for revitalization through cultural activities such as food; however; there is a gap in associated knowledge translation or “teachings”. While some Métis families are rooted in their culture and practices related to Métis foods, others are not as connected to the foods and recipes they grew up with. There is, however, a desire to reestablish family recipes and food protocols, and increase access traditional foods which are perceived as beneficial for Métis people. Results of this thesis will provide Manitoba Métis people with opportunities for critical reflection on food and their identity as Métis; food origins; the role of food in our lives; and how ecological and political structures affect the production and consumption of food. In addition, this project will provide educators with an alternative discourse as it relates to food. Rather than focusing on nutrients and contemporary foods available in retail stores, culturally-based food education provides an important holistic approach to overall health and well-being that is self-affirming and strength-base

Prevention of tick borne diseases is often through tick control practices. This article diagnoses tick control practices, knowledge underlying these practices and how knowledge is shared at the wildlife-livestock interface in Laikipia County, Kenya. It identifies diverse land use and tick control practices by different land and livestock owners from a scientific knowledge-based (techne) and context driven experiential knowledge-based (metis) perspective. Interviews, focus group discussions, observations and documents yielded qualitative data to unravel i) the historical development of tick control in Kenya ii) techne and metis tick control practices within three ranches and among pastoralists in Laikipia County, and iii) status of tick knowledge sharing between stakeholders. Historical tick control measures date back to about 100 years ago, with increasingly strong veterinary measures over the decades under government control. However, the veterinary control system collapsed around 1991 and livestock owners took tick control into their own hands. All respondents indicated having relevant techne available about tick ecology and tick management practices. To adapt to the changing social, economic and institutional context, they further developed metis, integrating the known techne. Metis and techne complemented each other. Our study reveals that metis is developed within stakeholder groups. The data also suggest that metis practices sometimes develop risky effects to animal, human and environmental health. Knowledge on tick control is mainly shared within a social group, not between groups. We esteem, knowledge sharing between different stakeholder groups (ranchers, pastoralists, DVS) may provide opportunities for better informed decision-making based on fruitful combinations of techne and metis for effective and safe tick management.

Este artículo revisa las representaciones referidas a la figura folclórica del trickster y a la figura griega de Mễtis, como imágenes dialógicas y símbolos transculturales y bifrontes, vinculados con una inteligencia astuta capaz y con sus habilidades para deconstruir las representaciones comunes y crear paradojas que estimulan el conocimiento. Se proponen como estudios de casos diferentes textos e hitos interculturales., This paper reviews the representations of the folkloric figure of Trickster and the Greek figure of Mễtis as dialogic images and transcultural, two-sided symbols linked to a capable cunning intelligence and its ability to deconstruct common representations and create paradoxes that promote knowledge. Several texts and intercultural milestones are proposed as case studies.

Depth psychology provides a means to view consilience as an expression of anima mundi, a world ‘alive’ with consciousness, in which humanity takes part. Mythopoïesis becomes an active mode of cognition via the imaginative interaction with the cosmos. The Greek god Hephaistos, crippled god of technology and making, is the paradigmatic possessor not only of consummate technical skill (techne), but also of cunning intelligence and flexible opportunism (metis). Logic places these qualities at opposing ends of a cognitive and behavioral spectrum, but the unique combination of techne with metis, seen in light of another Hephaistean epithet, amphigueeis, an ambiguous term which can be translated either as “crippled” or “ambidextrous,” lameness or crooked-walking reveals itself as emblematic of the ability to contain apparent opposites in dynamic tension. The myth of the wounded maker-god becomes a way of perceiving, understanding and reifying the ambidextrous, consilient consciousness needed to navigate a dangerous world., La psicología profunda proporciona una forma de contemplar la consiliencia como una expresión del anima mundi, un mundo “vivo” de conciencia en el que participa la humanidad. La mitopoïesis se convierte en un modo activo de cognición a través de la interacción imaginativa con el cosmos. El dios griego y lisiado Hefesto, dios de la tecnología y la fabricación, es el paradigmático poseedor tanto de la habilidad técnica consumada (techne), como de la inteligencia astuta y el oportunismo flexible (metis). La lógica coloca estas cualidades en extremos opuestos de un espectro cognitivo y conductual. Pero la combinación única de techne con metis, contemplada a la luz de otro epíteto muy de Hefesto, ‘amphigueeis’, un término ambiguo que se puede traducir como “lisiado” o como “ambidiestro”, cojera o andar tortuoso, se revela como emblemática en su capacidad de contener aparentes opuestos en tensión dinámica. El mito del dios hacedor y herido se convierte en una forma de percibir, comprender y reificar la ambidiestra conciencia consiliente necesaria para navegar por un mundo peligroso.

Mid-nineteenth-century Indigenous fur-trade students were part of a larger group of mixed-descent children in the British Empire who were the product of intimate relations between British men and local women in the colonies. These imperial children were the source of a great deal of anxiety for their parents, British administrators, missionaries, and entrepreneurs. In the mid-nineteenth-century Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) territories, the parents of elite Indigenous fur-trade children sought a British-style education for their children in order to equip them thrive in the HBC territories and the larger British Empire. These children were sent to schools in the HBC territories, the Canadian colonies, and Britain in order to learn how to perform gendered British middle-class identities. In the HBC territories, however, missionaries who were attuned to the project of civilizing and Christianizing Indigenous peoples leveraged this curriculum in different ways than their counterparts in metropolitan spaces. Elite Indigenous fur-trade students were highly mobile, as schooling often required children to live at boarding schools far from their homes at fur trade posts. An extensive network of British and Indigenous kin that spanned the HBC territories, the Canadian colonies, and Britain supported fur-trade students who were at school. For these trans-imperial children and their families, the HBC territories were not an isolated outpost of the British Empire but were only one site in an imperial circuit of familial mobility. The children’s educational mobility provides a window into the reciprocal movement of people, ideas, and culture between the HBC territories, Britain, and other parts of the Empire that formed the ‘mutually constitutive’ Empire. The elite Indigenous fur-trade children in this study were able to draw on both their Indigenous heritage and the privilege afforded to them by their elite status in their attempts to negotiate the shifting racial and social bound

In this interview, Métis scholars and writers, Jennifer Adese and Zoe Todd, engage in conversation with settler scholar and PhD candidate, Shaun Stevenson, about the complex mediations of Métis identity. Pushing back against limited notions of “mixedness” and uncritical settler or non-Métis moves to indigenize at the expense of Métis peoplehood and self-determination, the authors articulate a robust mediation of Métis identity, which occurs through kinship relations, connections to a Métis homeland and polity, the potential for language revitalization, and the foregrounding of Métis women. The authors assert that Métis identity has been overdetermined through uncritical mediations of settler identity, as they shift the terms of conversation back to Métis peoples themselves, in order to articulate a distinct vision of Métis futurity., In this interview, Métis scholars and writers, Jennifer Adese and Zoe Todd, engage in conversation with settler scholar and PhD candidate, Shaun Stevenson, about the complex mediations of Métis identity. Pushing back against limited notions of “mixedness” and uncritical settler or non-Métis moves to indigenize at the expense of Métis peoplehood and self-determination, the authors articulate a robust mediation of Métis identity, which occurs through kinship relations, connections to a Métis homeland and polity, the potential for language revitalization, and the foregrounding of Métis women. The authors assert that Métis identity has been overdetermined through uncritical mediations of settler identity, as they shift the terms of conversation back to Métis peoples themselves, in order to articulate a distinct vision of Métis futurity.

This article challenges the ideological position that denies the historical existence of Métis in Québec. Responding to accusations such that Eastern Métis are “zombies” with no “living” traditions, this paper has two objectives. First, it explores some political and juridical elements that help explain the emergence of such reactionary rhetoric. It then presents the oral tradition of Marie-Louise Riel, reported as protecting the Métis leader in the Outaouais region during his political exile. Through the exploration of this oral history, we offer examples of Eastern-Western Métis kinship and solidarity that defy the territorial reification of Métis culture as being a West-only phenomenon. Together, the evidence compiled and reviewed offers compelling reasons to assert that the Outaouais Métis are bearers of a distinct identity—an identity that many of their descendants still value today., This article challenges the ideological position that denies the historical existence of Métis in Québec. Responding to accusations such that Eastern Métis are “zombies” with no “living” traditions, this paper has two objectives. First, it explores some political and juridical elements that help explain the emergence of such reactionary rhetoric. It then presents the oral tradition of Marie-Louise Riel, reported as protecting the Métis leader in the Outaouais region during his political exile. Through the exploration of this oral history, we offer examples of Eastern-Western Métis kinship and solidarity that defy the territorial reification of Métis culture as being a West-only phenomenon. Together, the evidence compiled and reviewed offers compelling reasons to assert that the Outaouais Métis are bearers of a distinct identity—an identity that many of their descendants still value today.

Soupe maigre et tasse de thé, publié aux Éditions des Plaines en 1994, est un « témoignage écrit et unique d’une pionnière » ¬Christine de La Salmonière¬ relatant son voyage de la France au Canada et son installation avec son époux à Sainte-Rose-du-Lac, au Manitoba, à la fin du XIXe siècle. Nous souhaitons mettre en avant l’évolution de la relation fond-forme de ce récit pour illustrer notre double hypothèse de départ selon laquelle, d’une part, la perception de l’Autre métis de Christine évolue au contact des Métis, et, d’autre part, sa propre identité en s’acculturant et en se métissant personnellement. À travers l’hybridité de son écriture qui mélange des caractéristiques propres au récit de voyage et au journal intime, nous présenterons la vision des Métis de Christine, non seulement par rapport à la perception des « Sauvages » au XIXe siècle, mais également en tant que vision ethnocentrique puis métissée.

Programs and interventions designed to reduce or remedy social, political, economic, and health disparities have varying levels of both short-term and long-term success. Within First Nations and Metis communities in Manitoba, health status and wellbeing, especially of women and children, is an ongoing concern, influenced largely by history, culture, and systemic experiences. Women and girls were recruited to participate in an activity based research project to answer the question: “what do you need to be happy, healthy and safe and how do you try to make sure that girls grow up to be happy, healthy and safe?”. Recruitment criteria included self-identification as First Nations or Metis, a mother (or other female family member providing care) (n=24) of girls ages 8-12 (n=36), lived within Winnipeg, and the ability to commit, with her daughter, to an evening a week for seven weeks. Three workshops were conducted between September 2015 and March 2016. This study employed two key methodological study design components. A participatory workshop provided space for shared learning and intergenerational engagement while a community based research approach utilizing process and evaluation design components allowed for the collection and initial analysis of data within the workshops. Through activities, such as crafts, games, and discussions, participants shaped this study. The predominant theme that emerged was that in order to achieve health, safety and wellbeing, historical trauma needs to be addressed. This is a grouped manuscript style thesis. Chapter one provides an introduction to the study. Chapter two explores how the methodological approach provided a space for reconciliation, self-determination and healing. Chapter three explores the concept of harm reduction within family contexts as demonstrated through three arts-based activities. Chapter four provides a theoretical discussion about historical trauma, cultural memory and the workshop environment as a space for te

Despite long standing efforts at income assistance and community development, the income gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians continues to grow (Adelson, 2005, p. 53). Indigenous people are also overrepresented in the “poorer populations” of Canada’s urban communities (Peters & Walker, 2005). This research is a case study of the Métis Economic Development Organization (MEDO), a Winnipeg-based For-Benefit company designed to support the Métis community in Manitoba, Canada through its elected government, the Manitoba, Métis Federation (MMF). Given that Winnipeg has the largest Métis population in Canada (Statistics Canada, 2013b), this research highlights MEDO’s place within the spectrum of approaches to urban Indigenous community economic development. Through participant interviews, a narrative is presented which emphasizes the challenges in overcoming (and embracing) certain stereotypes, a strong separation between business and government, and the role planners may have in fostering a healthy environment where for-benefit enterprises may flourish and empower urban Indigenous people in Winnipeg, MB.

Objects have the power to create a concrete connection to our past - a connection we can hold in our hands. Each object in a family collection is connected to an ancestor and their story. It is these stories that ground us in who we are and where we come from; these stories that create our heritage and identity. The McTavish Collection is made up 159 objects and is housed at the Manitoba Museum. The collection belonged to a prominent fur trade family and has been passed down through five generations of women of mixed Indigenous/European decent. Eighty objects were pulled from the vaults and reunited as a single collection for closer study. An object biography was created using a combination of research techniques and perspectives to piece together a deeper understanding of the life of women of the fur trade era. Through these objects, a story emerged and shone a light on the women who made, collected and used these objects. This is a study of that process and those stories.

As the standardization of network-assisted deviceto-device (D2D) communications by the 3 rd Generation Partnership Project progresses, the research community has started to explore the technology potential of new advanced features that will largely impact the performance of 5G networks. For 5G, D2D is becoming an integrative term of emerging technologies that take advantage of the proximity of communicating entities in licensed and unlicensed spectra. The European 5G research project Mobile and Wireless Communication Enablers for the 2020 Information Society (METIS) has identified advanced D2D as a key enabler for a variety of 5G services, including cellular coverage extension, social proximity and communicating vehicles. In this paper, we review the METIS D2D technology components in three key areas of proximal communications – network-assisted multi-hop, full-duplex, and multi-antenna D2D communications – and argue that the advantages of properly combining cellular and ad hoc technologies help to meet the challenges of the information society beyond 2020., QC 20160722 QC 20160922, Wireless@KTH BUSE

Many important developments have followed from the distinction being made between post-colonial and settler-colonial situations. This distinction has had implications that reach across disciplines, but have especially impacted the immerging field of Indigenous studies in Canada, which had previously been drawing, and to a certain extent continue to draw, on theories from post-colonial studies. I write this at the intersection of Indigenous studies and English literature building on the theories of decolonization in settler-colonial situations. I show that English poetry written by people in the Indigenous prairie context is one particularly active site of decolonization, in the sense that scholars such as Linda Tuhiwai Smith explain. Through the poetry of Louise Halfe, Duncan Mercredi, Gregory Scofield, Marie Annharte (Née Baker) I show how important elements of Indigenous culture are being translated into printed poetry. Furthermore, these poets are Indigenizing aspects of settler-colonial culture. I use Halfe’s poetry, especially her collection Bear Bones & Feathers, to show the ways in which Indigenous concepts of medicine can be translated into printed poetic form and bring healing for the injuries inflicted by colonialism. Scholars Jo-Ann Episkenew and Sam McKegney provide other examples of this practice and the theoretical underpinnings for literature operating as medicine. Mercredi’s poetry reveals that some of the oral character of Indigenous stories can be translated into poetry. Indigenous scholars such as Neal McLeod argue that Indigenous cultures have long engaged in the use of wit and metaphor that is so prolific in poetry. Scofield translates ceremony into poetry. Drawing in part on J.L. Austin’s notion of performativity, I show that Indigenous poetry is an active force within communities. I read Annharte’s poetry as an example of Indigenization and activism in which she destabilizes the authority of the English language. Francis challenges artistic ge

Process philosophy has drawn attention to the world as ambiguous and ever changing, however also enactable. This makes entrepreneurship a processual phenomenon, rightly addressed as ‘entrepreneuring’. Recognizing not only their cognitive, yet also affective and conative capabilities, makes it possible for human actors to mobilize forces that bring the world to a standstill long enough to create a venture for value creation. This, however, calls for the insight that is different to universal scientific knowledge – episteme and techne – namely, the situated insights that Aristotle addressed as mētis and phronesis. Mētis then concerns alertness and shrewdness and phronesis is about prudence in the context of action. Academic education can only provide these competencies needed to train for entrepreneuring by letting the students travelling across the boundaries of the university. In addition, the dominance of management as an ideology must be proactively dealt with. Three cases in academic training for entrepreneuring, all in the Swedish context, which show radically different ways of dealing with these challenges, are presented in a comparative analysis. The lessons are summarized in general conditions for providing training that advances entrepreneurship students’ situated and actionable insights.

An explosive growth in the demand for higher data rates and capacity along with diverse requirements set by massive and ultra-reliable machine-type communications are the main drivers behind the development on new access technologies as part of the fifth generation (5G) networks. Currently, different air interface (AIF) and/or AIF variants, optimized based on the frequency band of operation and use case, are envisioned for such a network. Developing an agile resource management framework for 5G networks is one of the main goals of the METIS-II project. The METIS-II project builds strongly upon the EU flagship project METIS, which has laid the foundation of 5G. This framework will take into account the multi-link and multi-layer constraints currently envisioned for 5G. In this paper, we provide our first insights into agile resource management and the associated synchronous control functions. We will discuss the essential building blocks in terms of technology enablers and their mapping to 5G services and deployments. The introduced agile resource management framework for 5G is expected to enable enhanced interference management, dynamic traffic steering, fast radio access network (RAN) moderation, efficient context management, and optimized integration with legacy networks., QC 20160908

[EN] The Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty Information Society (METIS) project is laying the foundations of Fifth Generation (5G) mobile and wireless communication system putting together the point of view of vendors, operators, vertical players, and academia. METIS envisions a 5G system concept that efficiently integrates new applications developed in the METIS horizontal topics and evolved versions of existing services and systems. This article provides a first view on the METIS system concept, highlights the main features including architecture, and addresses the challenges while discussing perspectives for the further research work.

Report: iv, 83 p., maps, digital file, Questions about the nature of Métis identity have received considerable scrutiny in recent years (Foster, 1985; Hatt, 1971; Peterson and Brown, 1985). Events at Red River and Batoche have come to public attention in new ways, and this Prairie segment of Metis history has become increasingly well known. At the same time, it is evident that there are considerable populations in all parts of Canada which consider-themselves Metis, many of which do not have Red River ancestry (Table 1.0). This report explores the issue of Métis identity by analyzing the opinions and attitudes of an Ontario population which identifies itself as Métis, but appears to have few historic links with the Métis at Red River. The data derive from a 1985 questionnaire survey by the Ontario Métis and Non-Status Indian Association (OMNSIA). The survey attempted to identify the concerns, attitudes and opinions of OMNSIA members on issues of relevance to Metis and Non-Status Indians in Ontario (see Appendix A). While there are a number of problems with the survey, it nevertheless represents a unique and valuable resource for research ori Metis identity.

Evaluación y análisis de los modelos de propagación del canal radio empleados en la actualidad para la caracterización del rendimiento de los sistemas de 5G a través de simulaciones en escenarios sintéticos y una campaña de medición con el objetivo de determinar un modelo de canal realista.

This edition testifies to the broad international reach of the journal, with contributions variously concerned with Arctic Indigenous communities, the Métis of Canada, Native Hawaiians and Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Two articles stress the need to work collaboratively and respectfully with Indigenous populations whilst conducting research. The first, by Gwen Healey, notes the increased interest in health research in the Arctic, particularly with Inuit populations. Healy seeks to add to the growing body of literature concerned with Indigenous ways of knowing by highlighting Inuit concepts that inform an effective Arctic research model. The second, by primary author Peter Hutchinson and a range of co-contributors, highlights the ways in which Métis collaborators working in health developed a participatory Indigenous research method that was unique in that it foregrounded Métis relationships and relationality. In so doing, the researchers were able to give substance to otherwise staid policy statements about the need for good ethical research conduct.

Ce texte répond à l’interrogation principale suivante : si l’on considère la nouvelle rhétorique comme champ paradigmatique de l’analyse du discours, alors sur quoi repose-t-elle comme principe qui l’oriente et qui en justifie la pertinence heuristique ? L’on commence d’abord par montrer que la nouvelle rhétorique est le paradigme qui convient à l’analyse du discours. Ensuite, l’on évalue la pertinence heuristique de la nouvelle rhétorique en révélant l’insuffisance du principe de raison élargie qui la sous-tend. Ce qui permet d’envisager un concept autre de raison qui permette une analyse véritablement descriptive des pratiques discursives., This text answers the following main interrogation: if we consider the New Rhetoric as paradigmatic field of the Discourse Analysis, then on which principle does it base, which directs it and which justifies its heuristic relevance? We begin at first to show that the New Rhetoric is the paradigm which is suitable to the Discourse Analysis. Then, we evaluate the heuristic relevance of the New Rhetoric by revealing the insufficiency of the principle of widened reason on which it base. That allows proposing another concept of reason which makes possible a really descriptive analysis of the discursive practices., Este texto responde a la pregunta principal siguiente: si se considera la nueva retórica como campo paradigmático del análisis del discurso, entonces, ¿en qué se fundamenta como principio que le orienta y justifica su pertinencia heurística? Primero, se empieza a mostrar que la nueva retórica es el paradigma que conviene al análisis del discurso. Luego, se evalúa la pertinencia histórica de la nueva retórica mostrando la insuficiencia del principio de razón ampliada que la subtiende. Lo que permite considerar otro concepto de razón que posibilita un análisis verdaderamente descriptivo de las prácticas discursivas.

Pourquoi existe-t-il toujours une tendance chez les Franco-Manitobains à se définir comme une communauté homogène, en dépit d’un passé et d’un présent hétérogènes? Pour élucider cette question, nous remontons au début des années 1970 pour analyser le discours sur deux événements marquants dans l’histoire manitobaine: le centenaire du Manitoba et le début du Festival du Voyageur. Nous examinons tout particulièrement le discours sur les anglophones, les francophones et les Métis dans La Liberté, comparé au St. Boniface Courier / Le Courrier de Saint-Boniface et à La Bastringue, pour mettre en lumière les raisons historiques et culturelles d’une évolution lente vers la reconnaissance d’un espace francophone diversifié. Notre analyse révèle que La Liberté cherche, au début des années 1970, à renouveler les relations avec les Québécois et à renforcer un festival « canadien-français » ou « franco-manitobain » au détriment d’un festival bilingue inspiré de l’héritage métis.

The Common Land, Common Ground is a partnership between Kenora, ON, Grand Council Treaty #3, and three reserve communities in the area. This research focused on Aboriginal women’s knowledge of water and participation in water governance under the auspices of the Common Ground Research Forum. Data was collected through qualitative research methods. This thesis is organized by objectives: 1) recording women’s knowledge and teachings on water; 2) learning about the concerns women have regarding water in and around their communities; 3) establishing the role women have played and are playing in water governance in their communities; and 4) identifying culturally appropriate opportunities for shared learning about their connection to water and their role in its governance. Recommendations include: creating roles for Aboriginal women in new and existing governance structures, greater inclusion of Métis perspectives in Common Ground activities, and incorporation of Aboriginal water knowledge in school curricula and tourism resources.