Author Maria Cambell’s Stories of the Road Allowance People, discusses the non-normative, anti-state, anti-institutional, interrelation and the relativizing. She marries the father and mother to weave closely the narrative that is a reflection of the genesis of the Metis People from which she was raised, and their language. It also takes a look at the importance of the “membering” as being a performance of the Metis peoplehood. In Cambell’s motivation for translating the stories of her Metis community who lived in northern Saskatchewan, she uses the Michif English code to translate the stories. This was not used to claim and create intellectual sovereignty. Instead, it was used to follow her feelings in relation to her sense of community and to her ear for the people’s storytelling, which is a major component to her Metis culture. The readings of Stories of the Road Allowance People is a considered to be a performance of stories that generate a function and meaning that is outside the standard English and Euroamerican thought. This could be regarded as being an expression of intellectual independence. It is through the voices of her people that Campbell community. Campbell was faced with the task in writing Stories of the Road Allowance People with textualizing in English the stories of her people as they were told through the elders’ ancestral Michif. She does not end up translating the stories directly into English, however, and this is where her Metis roots really begin to show in her writing. She refers to the way that she translates as being a dialect and rhythm of her village and of her father’s generation. She says that this is considered to be very broken English.