By Michael Oleksyn  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter University of Saskatchewan (USask) Metis drama professor Bruce Sinclair has been named the University Library’s Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence at USask for 2023. Sinclair, a Metis theatre artist, teacher, student of the nehiyawewin (Cree) and Michif languages, begins his 12-week residency this month. Sinclair is originally from Meadow Lake/ The Battlefords and is currently a sessional lecturer in the department of drama as well as a theatre artist. Sinclair said about his role as Storyteller-in-Residence that it is about connecting stories to education. “(It’s) making time for others, to share and hear and learn, for acceptance of many cultures and stories, to teach our children  to actualize and realize the essence of story in our places of education,” Sinclair said. Sinclair teaches drama to USask

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