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A 73-year-old Métis man says he is angry and wants to know why his ponytail was cut without his consent while he was in hospital for a hip surgery. On Aug. 30, Ruben St. Charles fell out of his bed, breaking his hip and causing him to need medical attention. His wife called an ambulance and he was taken to the Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon. He had surgery on his hip, but once he came to afterward he saw that his ponytail, which he said was about a foot long, had been snipped off. "I checked my head and all that, I thought to myself, 'What the?' No ponytail, nothing. My hair was standing up," St. Charles said. St. Charles said he started screaming. He said he wanted to give his braid to his sister, but at 73 he doubts he'll be able to grow it out that long again. "I was supposed to hand that down from generation to generation. My two older brothers passed away and I couldn't give that to them," St. Charles said. "My whole dreams are gone right there. Now what I want to do, I want to die peacefully and I don't want to hold resentments."

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The scarf he wears is a Métis sash- a cultural piece used for a variety of reasons, including being used for an emergency sewing thread!

Métis people have a special way of weaving these garments, and often recieve them in ceremony or as gifts.

Montréal is also has quite a few Métis people, as a vast majority of Métis people are indigenous/French. Métis folks are everywhere- there are several settlements- mostly in the prairies and Alberta, but there are chosen homes all over Canada.

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The last of my little Persona chibis. I meant to post this a little while ago, but lost track of time oops.