My research centres on twentieth-century Métis communities in Western Canada, merging Indigenous research methodologies with Historical Geographic Information Systems to focus on the intersections of land, gender, kinship and stories. My work focuses primarily on Metis road allowance communities and Metis movement and displacement to prairie urban centres. Much of this focuses on mapping and the multi-faceted roles of Métis women in their families and communities and the significance of female kinship relationships in structuring these communities.  

I am the Director of the Department of History's Co-Lab (Centre for Community-Engaged and Collaborative Historical Research) and work in the Department's Historical Geographic Information Systems Laboratory in Kirk Hall. 

I have worked within my community for over twenty years in the areas of historical and community-based research, curriculum development, community engagement, advocacy and health policy and program planning. I am Métis, originally from north-central Saskatchewan, a Métis Nation - Saskatchewan citizen and a member of Gabriel Dumont Local #11 in Saskatoon.