Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, residing in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Parent to six children, she has a BEd, LLB, and MA. She is a Cree language instructor at the Faculty of Native studies at the University of Alberta.
Chelsea is a public intellectual, writer, and educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, and resurgence. Author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, she and her co-host Molly Swain produce the Indigenous feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space, and co-founded the Métis in Space Land Trust.
Chelsea blogs at apihtawikosisan.com and makes legendary bannock.
SITE NAME
âpihtawikosisân is the name the Cree have given to the Métis, and literally translated it means “half-son”. Chelsea began writing under the name âpihtawikosisân because this blog started as a geeky language blog she never expected anyone to read, and to make it clear she is writing from a Métis perspective.
It is pronounced ah-pih-du-wi-GO-si-sahn.
Please do not contact me for help applying for Status, or Métis membership. I do not have expertise in the application processes and cannot help you.
For speaker inquiries:
Contact my agent, Rob Firing at Transatlantic Agency, for all speaking and workshop requests.