Mahpiya Eagle’s Reviews > The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Metis Nation > Status Update

"But the Metis Nation did belong to Red River and indeed saw it as the heart of their motherland. What the Company and and settlers missed was the purpose, the patterns and catalysts that animated the Metis Their movement was not aimless or without purpose. The Metis Nation's mobility was a murmuration, the shape-shifting movement of a flock of starlings."