Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne), Alta., residing in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Parent to six, she has a BEd, LLB, and MA, and is a nêhiyawêwin (Cree) language instructor, public intellectual, writer, and educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, futurisms, and resurgence. Author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada, and Buffalo is the New Buffalo, Chelsea 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.

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