Métis curators, fait-attention! $30,000 award available for an awesome exhibition. Hmmmm, I'm wondering who out there would like to pull together an exhibition in time for the premiere of Riel: Heart of the North?!!!
Pound maker was an ally of Metis leader Louis Riel. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/federal-government-moving-to-exonerate-first-nations-chief-convicted-of-treason/article37546796/
Who knew?? Honoré Jackson, Riel's secretary during the resistance, became a good friend to Frank Lloyd Wright when they met in 1910. Jackson remains one of the many intriguing stories of our people. He was not Métis, he was a Southern Ontario WASP. Yet as a young man of 23 he became enamoured with Riel, served as his secretary.
