Approaching Fire Carrier use vibrant stories and personal

use vibrant stories and personal narratives to offer insights into the unique nature of Indigenous leadership

A searing collection that embodies the vitality and ferocity of spoken-word poetry

reconnecting individuals and communities

and Tuscarora Traditional Arts is the catalogue that accompanies the travelling exhibition of the same name

Aboriginal Beliefs

Approaching Fire Carrier use vibrant stories and personalIn Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter, a Red River Mtis poet, journalist, and editor, embarks on a quest to find her great grandfather, the Mtis fiddler and performer Lon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor. Weaving through