Sarah Hourie

• PhD Candidate ABD (Indigenous Studies), University of Manitoba, Present
• MA (Indigenous Studies), University of Manitoba, 2022
• BA Advanced (Indigenous Studies, History), University of Manitoba, 2020

Sarah Hourie is a Métis Assistant Professor in the Department of City Planning at the University of Manitoba. She was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she presently lives and works. Through her paternal line, she is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation and a registered member of the Heritage Proud Local. Most of her immediate Métis kin hold relations to High Bluff and the surrounding area.

• Indigenous Land Tenure Systems and Architectural Practices
• Historic and Contemporary City Development in Settler Colonial Contexts
• Critical Indigenous Studies Genealogies and Literature
• Western Critical Theory Genealogies and Literature

Sarah’s familial rootedness in Red River has guided her conceptions of “housing” and “home.” Her research uses intergenerational memories and the uncanny to remap settler colonial places and spatializes nineteenth-century Métis vernaculars to inform home-making / homeland-making. She engages with haunting as a theoretical framework to examine building in place and unsettling space. Sarah practices Indigenous relational methodologies of story- and memory-work when visiting her family and their narratives within cemeteries and colonial archives.

Red River Readers. 2025. “Red River Readers in Multivocal Flux: Across, Between, and Beyond Traditional Disciplinary Approaches to Métis Studies.” In Mawachihitotaak: What We Learned (in Michif) Métis Conference Book, edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides, 19-33. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc.

Perry, Adele., Thorpe, Jocelyn., Duhamel, Karine., Belachew, Betchel., Bowers, Hannah., and Sarah Hourie. 2022. Missing the Bus: Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit Plus People and Public Transit in Western Canada. https://chrr.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Missing-the-Bus-2024.pdf.