Tom McCallum, White Standing Buffalo, shares stories in Michif language and ways it captures the ideas of life in traditional territories, on the Métis homeland, and in community today. His stories help us understand the interrelationship with land based on deep understandings in Michif. Both traditional understandings and current urban relationships are explored.

Tom McCallum, White Standing Buffalo, is a Sundance lodge keeper, Elder, advocate of the Michif language, and healer. He is an eloquent speaker and impassioned advocate for the Michif language. I am grateful to him for all he has taught me. Tom uses metaphors to help us understand the ideas of Indigenous language and its connections to culture and the land.

Tom McCallum, White Standing Buffalo, shares stories in Michif language from his intimate knowledge of the language. Sharing in the verb-based language of Michif is very different than understandings in the noun-based language of English. He explores these differences using simple Michif words and their deep meanings. He helps English-only speakers get beyond their limitations to begin to understand our relationships with land from Indigenous perspectives.