Dr. Cheryl Troupe
Dr. Cheryl Toupe is a citizen of the M茅tis Nation 鈥 Saskatchewan and a member of Gabriel Dumont Local #11 in Saskatoon. She is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the History Department鈥檚 CoLab 鈥 Centre for Community Engaged and Collaborative Historical Research in the Department of History at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Saskatchewan. Her research centres on twentieth-century M茅tis communities in Western Canada and merges Indigenous research methodologies with Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) to focus on the intersections of land, gender, kinship, and stories. Troupe鈥檚 recent book, Putting Down Roots: Me虂tis Agency, Land Use, and Women鈥檚 Food Labour in a Qu鈥橝ppelle Valley Road Allowance Community uses oral histories, family genealogies, community-engaged research, and digital history methodologies to reframe M茅tis road allowance communities as sites of resistance and resilience where liminality and poverty are not synonymous with atrophy. Examining these communities through the lens of women鈥檚 work鈥攑articularly in food production鈥攕he considers their resilience and resistance embedded in everyday actions to maintain culture, family systems, commonly held values, and connections to the land.