Two Spirit Métis BC Council

Louis has served as Minister of Economic Development & Tourism and Minister of Health for Métis Nation BC (2020-2024). He is a business entrepreneur, social activist, and community advocate. Louis has been a sessional instructor of Indigenous Studies (Chilliwack campus) at the University of the Fraser Valley, sits on the Indigenous Advisory Board for UFV’s School of Business and the UFV Senate Committee on Indigenization. Louis also served as the Chair of MNBC’s 2SLGBTQQIA+ Committee (2021-2024).

With a hospitality career that spans 35 years, the former Restaurant Owner (Bravo Restaurant & Lounge 2004-2016), 2015 Federal Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Chilliwack-Hope, and 2018 candidate for Chilliwack city council completed his Executive master’s degree in business (EMBA) at Simon Fraser University with certification in Aboriginal Governance from the University of Arizona. His Executive master’s degree covers the philosophy of management, business communication, managerial and financial accounting, marketing management, entrepreneurship and scaling and growing businesses. Louis is a recipient of the Al McCracken Memorial Award for Provincial Volunteer of the Year in BC, and the RBC Entrepreneur Scholarship
Award for business. Louis grew up in Winnipeg with ancestral ties to the. Métis families of Sinclair, Norquay, Anderson, Monkman, Truthwaite and was also past-President, and Board Member of the Chilliwack Métis
Association.

Sarah Curr (she/they) is the 2SLGBTQQIA+ representative for Region 1, and a proud two-spirit, Métis person. Sarah is grateful to live on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw peoples. She holds much gratitude to be surrounded by the mountains and ocean in this beautiful coastal territory. Sarah’s Métis family names are Cardinal, Klyne, Lavallée, Cyr, and Ducharme, with ties to the Red River settlement, Jasper house, and St. Laurent.

Sarah is honored to amplify the voices of Region 1’s 2S community and is eager to work in collaboration with our communities on creating safer, more inclusive spaces for our 2S kin.

Anya McVean (she/her) primarily identifies as 2S or skom diloo (a Michif term that means “is like water”), but her other identifiers include queer, bisexual, and greysexual.

One of the greatest things that has happened to her in the past few years is finding the true community embrace provided by fellow members of the Métis 2SLGBTQQIA+ (abbreviated hereafter to 2S) within BC and elsewhere (our Manitoba-based Nohkumak/Grandmothers Barbara Bruce and Charlotte Nolin and their teachings are invaluable). Anya has had the opportunity to attend two 2S gatherings with the Nohkumak and many fellow BC folks, and looks forward to implementing much of what she has learned into my own life as well as sharing it with others.

She hopes that, in the future, she can help fellow 2S folks from throughout Region 3 to learn more about themselves and their history. She hopes that she can help facilitate more gatherings and events, and hopefully see greater access to things like 2S sweat lodges, the Sundance (one dream is to see a group travel together to Manitoba for their 2S Sundance), as well as other things as ideas come forward.

Anya holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Theatre Arts and a minor in English. She also studied Secondary School Education and Counseling Psychology.