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• Title:Let me see your fancy steps : story of a Métis dance caller / the story of Jeanne Pelletier as told to Sylvie Sara Roy and Wilfred Burton.
  
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• Author/Creator:Pelletier, Jeanne, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Burton, Wilfred, 1958- author.
  Roy, Sylvie Sara, author.
  Roy, Sylvie Sara. Let me see your fancy steps.
  Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Saskatoon, Saskatchewan : Gabriel Dumont Institute Press, 2018.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM P45 L48 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Métis--Culture--Saskatchewan
  Métis--History--Saskatchewan
  Indigenous Peoples--Education programs--Saskatchewan
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Pelletier, Jeanne.
  Métis--Rites and ceremonies.
  Métis--Social life and customs.
  Métis--Saskatchewan--Biography.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies
  
• Description:x , 73 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.)
  
• Summary:“The Gabriel Dumont Institute Press is pleased to be able to preserve and share Jeanne Pelletier’s work and life story through Let Me See Your Fancy Steps—Story of a Métis Dance Caller. The Story of Jeanne Pelletier as told to Sylvie Sara Roy and Wilfred Burton. Jeanne’s achievement as the first female Métis dance caller is, of course, about Métis dance, but it is also about the determination of a young Métis girl who achieves her dream to become a dance caller during a time when this was only done by men. This resource includes dance calls for 16 dances and is accompanied by the instructional DVD All My Relations which features dance company V’ni Dansi which is led by renowned dancer and artistic director, Yvonne Chartrand." -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Previous edition written by Sylvie Sara Roy. Previously published: Canada : Sylvie Sara Roy, 2015.
  Includes glossary of calls and explanations.
  
• ISBN:9781926795898 (softcover)
  192679589X (softcover)
  
• Contents:Foreword / [Sherry Farrell Racette]
  Introduction / [Sylvie Sara Roy]
  A Message from Compaigni V'ni Dansi / [Yvonne Chartrand]
  Jeanne's Introduction
  Road Allowance Beginnings
  Born to Call
  Reviving Métis Dance
  The Kids Are Ready
  The Secret Is Out
  Taking the Show on the Road
  Making a Name as a Caller
  Teaching at SUNTEP [Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program]
  Steps in Time I
  Inspiring Youth in Schools
  All My Relations
  Reflecting Over the Years
  Dance Calls.