Metis Pioneers Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed Culture Haida language keepers assisted the Haida language keepers assisted the students with the names for each moon in Skidegate Haida and Old Massett Haida The book is easily accessible with numerous maps In Metis Pioneers Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade one from the French speaking free trade tradition and one from the English speaking Hudson's Bay Company tradition who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy