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"The Gabriel Dumont Institute Press is pleased to be able to preserve and share Jeanne Pelletier's work and life story through Let Me See Your Fancy Steps--Story of a Métis Dance Caller. The Story of Jeanne Pelletier as told to Sylvie Sara Roy and Wilfred Burton. Jeanne's achievement as the first female Métis dance caller is, of course, about Métis dance, but it is also about the determination of a young Métis girl who achieves her dream to become a dance caller during a time when this was only done by men." This resource includes dance calls for 16 dances and is accompanied by the instructional DVD All My Relations.which features dance company V'ni Dansi which is led by renowned dancer and artistic director, Yvonne Chartrand.