It was set up basically coming out of 1976, on behalf of Métis saying that we have to start promoting our culture, we have to start preserving our culture, we have to make our culture known and our people known. That is where the Gabriel Dumont Institute came from. It's expanded now. Of course it has SUNTEP, the teacher education program. It also has Dumont Technical Institute, which delivers employment and training within Saskatchewan. It has Dumont college, which is part of the University of Saskatchewan.
Of course Gabriel Dumont Institute itself has a working relationship or affiliation with both universities in the province. So it plays a tremendous role in Métis education. It also does publishing and curriculum development. It's very successful and a leader in terms of how it could be replicated in other provinces as well. Federal funding has been made available over the past few years to enable it to do further research, have a website, and so on. More of that certainly would be helpful.