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Community History Program: GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour - The Métis At Baawating 

Updated: Feb 4

Date: January 31st 2026

Time: 8:00pm

On Saturday January 31st, at 8:00 pm on all WCMU-NPR stations throughout Central and Northern Michigan (and online at www.radio.wcmu.org) audiences were able to tune into the GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour - The Métis At Baawating  program.

 

On the program was Harry Huskins (Masters in Law, and Masters of Arts Degree in History with a dissertation on Algoma in the 19th century), who gave an account of the Métis At Baawating and what set them apart; and Mitch Case, Councillor for the Huron-Superior Regional Métis Community of the Métis Nation of Ontario and a community-based historian focusing on the history of Ontario Métis communities around the Great Lakes.

 

The program also featured Amanda Rheaume, songwriter/musician, Citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, a bearer of history and Métis stories in song, who transmits a message of interconnectedness with her album, The Truth We Hold.



The GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Program - The Métis At Baawating was uploaded to the Borderline website, and citizens can listen to the program here:


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