Louise Moine
Louise (Trottier) Moine told her story of attending the Qu’Appelle Residential School as a Métis student in her true account Remebering Will Have To Do. She entered the school speaking Michif and later spoke English and French. She was the first Michif speaker to write a true account of her time in a residential school.
The Gabriel Dumount Institute with the assistance of Louise's daughters, Jacquie Richards and Gloria Tone, published a retrospecitve of Louise's life and published work in Remembering Will Have To Do: The Life and Times Lousie (Trottier) Moine.
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