After roughly 40 hours of meticulous work spread out over almost four weeks, Fort Smith’s Michel Labine has successfully recreated a traditional Métis capote.

The capote could be used all year long, which made them valuable to survival, she said. "There has been a great deal of Canadian history that has been absent or missed," she said.

Working for Metis ALIVE has helped her make some money to pay for it. Willow joins Felice at presentations, even travelling out of Alberta, and demonstrates jigging.

Karen Shmon thinks it's important not just for the Métis population, but all Canadians, to look back on history and learn about something they might not know a lot about. Shmon is the director of ...