metis mon voyageurs she said] french blood] red rapids] will i find the answers nanna? you tried to tell me something once while we were smiling for the camera i am wondering now what it was you said i remember you talked about the french never hate them she said] be proud of your blood] show love and respect keep a kind tongue don't listen to the jokes of your father can't hate what is] a part of you she said] it is deep within you] deep within] and i knew and i know voyageurs far back somewhere a mystery river a history hidden i try in my mind to recover the places the era the people i wish i could see them will i ever know the questions? i hear rumours something you said when he was young it twigged my memory but he can't remember and i know so little i've never even been to your valley i have not visited your grave someday i will bring you flowers 040112 ... crOwl very nice. 040113 ... nom reading_back it sounds like my father harbours a hatred for the french but really he just has a few wires crossed in the sense of humour department my grandmother defended the french-canadian blood at the sound of a joke/comment from my father and i vaguely remember her reasons uttered, something about the voyageurs i've always felt some deep connection and so i loved to hear this a while back my father said when he was young his mother told him something about cree blood and so now i wonder what he was talking about but i ask him and he says to ask someone who has a mind so i don't know what to think it is all rather thin perhaps sometime long ago someone knew fadó 040114 ... nom oh, and thanks 040114 ... mon L'nu'k mi'kmaq (acadie) 040220 ... nom 1600's 040220 ... sans nom http://www.geocities.com/nsmetis/culture.html 040220 ... inconnue i keep thinking about you nanna 040411 ... from now on i'm thinking of (officially) joining the quebec metis community. 041105 ... . http://www.metisduquebec.ca/ 041105 ... from now on but then i hesitate. 041105 ... monee i'm told i met my grandaunt, my nanna's sister, when we were living on the island, but i don't remember how can i not remember? i went to her house? but i don't remember. she is still living there, on the island. i don't know her. she doesn't know me. i wonder what she knows. 041218 ... mon uow how easily i forget things i wonder if she remembers 050328 ... skyburst777 when aunt L was here i wanted to ask her what she knew or what she didn't know but i could not i was too nervous she was only here for a short visit i'll write her a letter nanna i thought about you on your birthday i think about you often i like to think you're still alive i like to think we're still smiling for the camera i saw the picture from manitoba the thing you'd embroidered and i felt your love 050610 what's it to you? who go blather from