Christi belcourt biography of rory

Biography - long version

Christi Belcourt was born in Scarborough, Ontario in September, 1966. She is the first of three children born to Anthony (Tony) Belcourt and Judith Pierce Martin.

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Her Metis ancestry originates from the historic Metis community of Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta.  Her ancestry includes Metis, Cree, Mohawk, English, French and Acadian.  And there could be more, as Christi says, “these are the ones I know about anyway.”

Shortly after she was born, her family moved to Edmonton into her grandparents home.

“I have vivid memories of my grandma putting her clothes through the ringer on the old washing machine to squish water out.” Her grandmother Matilda Belcourt (née L’Hirondelle) and grandfather (Emile Belcourt) both spoke fluent Cree/Michif but never to their children.

Like many Aboriginal families back then, they wanted their kids to get ahead and to them, that meant having English as your first language. This is