The Métis Sauvage European Tour Archive (1999–2000)

Online History:

• Much of the original online material disappeared through server closures, hacking, platform collapse, and the instability of early internet publishing. What remains here is part travel journal, part media archive, and part Indigenous digital memory project.
• These fragments survive not as nostalgia, but as evidence of a particular time — when independent Indigenous artists began carrying stories into the emerging digital frontier.
• Miigweech. All my relations.
• Update — 2023-07-13
• Tansi.
• Apologies for the earlier cutting off of the bottom portions of some pages. I corrected the layout in Photoshop and updated the artist end page.
• This revised upload presents a 600 DPI restoration of Donald Morin’s 1999 Métis Sauvage European Tour Magazine, scanned from original colour hardcopy printing materials created for the first publication edition.
• The original hardcopy and digital material for the 1999 MSET was first published during the 1999 tour through:
• [http://www.literacymanufacturing.com](http://www.literacymanufacturing.com)
• While travelling during the tour, I attempted to continue publishing material online, but later discovered through my internet provider, InternetPilot.com, that the site appeared to have been deliberately hacked and attacked.
• At the time, independent Indigenous voices and alternative cultural perspectives on the early internet often existed without institutional protection or long-term digital stability. Much of that early online world was fragile and vulnerable to disappearance.
• After returning to Canada, I later created a second online archive through MSN:
• [http://homepages.msn.com/TimesSquares/frencheater/MetisSauvageEuropeanTour.html](http://homepages.msn.com/TimesSquares/frencheater/MetisSauvageEuropeanTour.html)
• That archive eventually disappeared due to MSN corporate platform changes and the shifting nature of early web publishing.
• Over the years, scattered photographs and fragments from the project were uploaded while I continued my work as a filmmaker, performer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist.
• Around 2007, one of the last surviving published copies of the magazine was roughly photographed and uploaded onto Facebook.
• This current restored edition was first re-uploaded through IsumaTV so that the material would remain freely accessible to everyone — especially younger generations interested in Indigenous media history, independent art, filmmaking, travel, performance, and cultural survival outside commercial paywall systems.
• A separate academic upload was also placed on Academia.edu, though that platform later introduced various access limitations and paywall structures.
• This current edition was scanned from original 1999/2000 printing hardcopies, including the surviving two-page “pullout insert” from one of the last remaining archival copies now held within DAM MEDIA archives.
• Realizing your potential in life means understanding that, with the right prayers, visions, discipline, courage, and guidance, people can continue carrying stories forward despite loss, distance, technological collapse, and time itself.
• Miigweech.
  All my relations.
• — Donald Morin