by Mike Gouldhawke
“The Scottish settler Alexander Ross, in his 1856 book about Red River, criticized Métis people for strictly following the Indigenous principle of sharing with one another, which he identified as ‘divide while anything remains,’ and he claimed this led our people to be ‘generally all reduced to the same level.’ In other words, looking after each other to such an extent that individuals couldn’t accumulate wealth at the expense of others.”
Read the article and the full zine by the Mamawi Project and Red River Echoes