First-time author Joan Pelletier’s poignant coming of-age memoir, Lebret—Looking Back and Beyond: An Autobiography takes readers back to a gentler time and place before the devasting disruption of having to leave her loving, supportive Michif family and road allowance community for the alien confines of the big city.
Joan Pelletier was raised in the Lebret Métis road allowance community. Now retired, she had a rewarding career as an educator in Regina. Proud of her Métis heritage, Joan presently serves as an Elder with the Métis Nation—Saskatchewan’s Western Region III and the Regina Local.