Stories of the Road Allowance People

Stories of the Road Allowance People is a 1995 book by Maria Campbell.

[1][2] The book captures the stories of Métis elders, and is a translation from Michif.

Stories of the Road Allowance People was written by Métis author Maria Campbell, who grew up in a road allowance community in Saskatchewan.

[3] A revised edition was published by the Gabriel Durmont Institute in 2010.

[5] The author translated stories told to her in Mitchif into Metis village oral English[5] The book consists of eight stories, written in the Mitchif common vernacular, or "village English", used by the male story tellers, rather than in standard English.