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Cultural Impact
As both President and director of the Metis resource Center, Freeman was passinate about keeping Metis culture alive. For example, Freeman played a prominent role in educating school children in Manitoba, Canada by giving presentations aboust Metis culture. Freeman spearheaded an education project providing Michif language lessons with audio. This is the language the Metis people speak. In addition, the MRC has created a brochure Sur le Sentier des Métis that provides directions to 20 essential Metis sites in Canada. It is estimated that over her stint working at the Metis Resource Center, Freeman has spoke to hundreds of thousans of people.

A large part of Freeman's information base comes directly from the source in Metis elders Audreen Hourie and Jeanette Swain Goertzen. In addition, Freeman has managed to amass a collection of important documents and artifacts about Metis culture. Her collection has been used by various Metis researchers and has played a role in preserving Metis culture overall.