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The Gabriel Dumont Institute (GDI) and the Saskatchewan Archives Board (SAB) have forged a partnership The Gabriel Dumont Institute (GDI) and the Saskatchewan Archives Board (SAB) have forged a partnership to house many of the SAB's Metis-specific images on the Institute's website, The Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture (www.metismuseum.ca). The Virtual Museum is a multifaceted, multimedia website dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Metis history and culture. The GDI-SAB partnership has resulted in the creation of an online databank of hundreds of Metis historical images, which chronicle highly valuable, but little-known images relating to the Metis experience in Saskatchewan. Too often, the images that we usually see of the Metis focus on Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont or the 1885 or Red River Resistances. Such an emphasis steers the viewer away from the fact that the Metis experience goes beyond these well-known personalities and cataclysmic events. The historical images put on the Virtual Museum focus on everyday things: families, lifeways, spiritualism and communities. Their inclusion will ensure a more complete understanding of the province s Metis heritage. Eventually, GDI would like to broker similar partnerships with local, regional, national and international archival/museum collections that hold Metis-specific images. Related Link:Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture
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