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Our Family Line Series
A multi‑episode documentary tracing eleven ancestral lines across three homelands and 250 years.
Series Introduction
An overview of the series, its purpose, and how the eleven lines form one story.
Series Methodology
Our Family Story – 3 Worlds
The big‑picture narrative of how northern, prairie, and coastal worlds shaped our family
Our Family Lines
A complete, structured index of all episodes, pages, and navigation paths in the series.
Bird Line
The northern‑interior line rooted in York Factory, Fort Severn, and early Red River leadership.
Thomas Line
The officer‑class lineage connecting Red River governance, diplomacy, and Métis community life.
Sutherland Line
An Orkney–Métis family whose descendants shaped the Red River Settlement and prairie world.
Cromartie Line
A northern‑interior Métis line linking Fort Severn, Red River, and the Saskatchewan homesteads.
Hourie Line
An Orkney–Cree family central to the Red River and Saskatchewan River kinship networks.
Cook-Cocking Line
An officer‑class lineage woven deeply into Red River’s Cree and Métis communities.
Spence Line
A foundational Orkney–Cree family whose descendants shaped early Red River society.
Batt Line
A prairie‑era Métis line rooted in Cree matrilines and Red River community life.
Park Line
An Orkney–Métis family connecting Red River to the northern interior through marriage and kinship.
Flett Line
A Métis family bridging Orkney ancestry, Cree kinship, and Red River parish life.
Brager Line
A Scandinavian‑American immigrant line that converges with the Bird and Cromartie families in Saskatchewan and BC.
Our Network Summary
A panoramic overview of how all eleven lines interconnect across regions, eras, and kinship systems.
Conclusion Reflection
A closing reflection on identity, continuity, and the meaning of this multi‑lineage story.
Our Kinship Lines
Our Kinship Clusters
A structural map of the major kinship clusters that link the eleven lines across generations.
chaku miɬayt na tilixam (Come Meet My Family)
Biography — James Curtis Bird (1773–1856)
tilixam iliʔi pipa (Family Land Scrip)
tilixam HBC pipa (Family HBC Bio Sheets)
chinuk ikta (Chinook Things)
sho pitr chinuk-tʼsəm mamuk (Joe Peter Chinook Transcription Project)
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The Emergence of the “New Nation”: Beyond Ancestry
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