Rose Bortolon -Western Metis - identified as French because there was so much prejudice against being Indian.
LAC - hiding in plain sight - you either identified as French Canadian if you had a French Canadian last name or ... Western Metis
History Of Aroostook County- 1910 - A complete history of Aroostook County and Its Early and Late Settlers by W.T. Ashby As published in the Mars Hill News - French were cruelly and brutally treated, boats and rigging destroyed.
History Of Aroostook County- 1910 - A complete history of Aroostook County and Its Early and Late Settlers by W.T. Ashby As published in the Mars Hill News - French Acadian half breedsg.
Federal Court ruling Harry Daniels et al v Queen, Jan 8 2013 - Metis and NonStatus lacking the protection of Dept of Indian Affairs - far more exposed to discrimination and other other social disabilities.
De la couleur des lois - Une histoire juridique du racisme au Canada entre 1900 et 1950- Constance Barkhouse 2010 - legislation had also been adopted to govern the testimony of any Indian or mixed blood native-Gee doesn't take a real genius to figure out why they would hide their
identity if they could !!/ UNSI (Union of Nova Scotia Indians) wants racism examined - MicmacNews-1987-10 Royal Commission Inquiry Wrongly Conviction of Donald Marshall Jr - Nova Scotia.
A legacy of oppression - MicmacNews-1987-03 -UNSI - just weeks before the final constitutional conference on aboriginal rights, Canada told UN Micmac self-determination threatened national unity and that they do not recognize Indian treaties as International agreements. He said
Canada does not recognize the that Micmacs have inherent rights to freely determine their own political status. Canada is blatantly racist./ and now we have the Mi'kmaq saying there is no such thing as EasternMetis, which is to say Metis of Mi'kmaw, Malecite etc
Robyn Lawson and Jarvis Googoo saying they have never heard of Metis in Mi'kma'ki.
MicmacNews-1973-03.- Constitution and By-Laws Union of Nova Scotia Indians - sec 3.10 An 'Indian" means, sec 3.12 A Metis. -- nope , never ever heard of Metis in Mi'kma'ki. (eyeroll)
Markie makes music- Sheet Harbour, NovaScotia- Markie describes his -Status- as Metis.- MicmacNews September 1979.
Lequille - Sheet Harbor, NS - testing ground for land claims - 1978 10. - Allen Semple director of Land Claims Research, for the NCNS.
Native council appoints land claims research director - 1978 02. Micmac News - Allen Semple - NonStatus Indians and land claim research.
Native council expands - 1978 - 06 - The Maritime office of NonStatus Indian and Metis land claims research will be run out of the Truro, NS office.
MicmacNews-1979-09 - Survey- Sheet Harbor- Doug Markie (who identified his status as Metis)- went to Harry Daniels president of the Native Council of Canada and asked for direction in how to go about tracing the survey (done in the Sheet Harbor area)and obtaining a copy of it for
the local. Markie fears it will tell his membership little if anything about their ancestral backgrounds./ Non Status and Metis meets at sheet harbor - MicmacNews-1976-09a
1976 - 05 - Viola Robinson - Non status and Metis Association regarding aboriginal rights.
Volume 17 Issue 2 February - March 1975- Indian News - Native Women confront UNSI Board - Mr. Denny suggested that the Metis and Non-Status Indians set up their own organization.
Form NonStatus and Metis association - all women executive - MicmacNews-1975-03.
1975 Micmac News - all womans board for NonStatus Indians and Metis in nova scotia.
1975 -07 - Micmac News - Non-Status Indians & Metis hold first assembly.
1975 - 06 Micmac News - Non Status - Indians and Metis Association General Assembly.
1975 Micmac News - non status and metis organize in nova scotia.
1975 - 07 - Gloria George - elected NCC President. - The National council represents some 750,000 Metis and NonStatus Indians from across Canada who are not recognized by the Department of Indian Affairs.
1975 - 07 Micmac News- student programs designed for leadership - Metis and Non Status.Kathy Brown in her role as President of the NonStatus Indian organization of Nova Scotia, outlined the work of her organization. She asked the students to take out of their hearts @Occamsfork
the prejudice placed upon the NonStatus Indians by the federal government through the employment of such terms as "NonStatus" and Metis. / NCNS - that the government labelled as "Metis", "NonStatus", etc
NCNS - Chief calling Metis - so called Eastern Metis., when the NCNS was the original NonStatus Indian and Metis Association of Nova Scotia. -- can't make this shit up, lol
1977 MicmacNews-NonStatus And Metis association changed its name to the native council of nova scotia" "MicmacNews-1977-07-The Non Status Indian and Metis Association of Nova Scotia has changed its name to the Native Council of Nova Scotia-Viola Robinson-President of the Council.
Volume 16 Issue 4 August 1973 - The Indian News - Rheal Plourde - Indians, Metis and Non-Indians in Quebec.
Zone 7 - Plourde family feel there is a lack of communication within the membership - Nova Scotia Non-Status and Metis Associations - Micmac News Jan 1979-01.
Bois-Brûlés- The Untold Story of the Métis of Western Québec- By Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, Guillaume Marcotte- UBC Press, May 1, 2020 - Rheal Plourde. - Indians, Metis - Quebec
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NBAPC - Final Sbmission - Dec 2018 - Who we are - Since 1971 Native Councils have represented the interests of NonStatus Indians and Metis ACROSS Canada. - BUT today, the NBAPC does not want to acknowledge it's Metis constiuents and neither does the NCNS. If they receive funding
to nationally represent NonStat and Metis peoples across Canada, per the CAP Mandate, then another organization should be receiving that funding and helping the Metis people of those provinces who have decided to turn their backs on them. Political Accord Implementation funding.
Justin-Trudeau-Letter-First-Ministers-Meeting. - Notice mentioning Metis, gotta get that funding.
Dec1973- Mal-i-Mac News- What's Up- The Union of Nova Scotia Indians held their fourth semi annual general meeting Nov14-16-1973- topic was Pros and Cons of Non-Reg Metis and NonStatus Indian membership in the UNSI organization.
MicmacNews-1973-03.- Constitution and By-Laws Union of Nova Scotia Indians - Sec 3.12 A Metis.
Pierre Sabourin - saying sec 3.12 has zero to do with 'Eastern Metis'.
Indian, of speaking an Indian language, and unless pressed to do so, would not have admitted a few years ago that she was an Indian. Rheal Plourde, her husband, a Metis co-ordinator for the Department of Indian Affairs Arts and Crafts Promotion program (oops better get Tamara
Bell) to tell him if he really knows his own identity, I don't think he was properly vetted and told his whole genealogy! *Sarcasm Alert/ Mi'kmaq leather worker - Nora Plourde.
Zone 3 - Mr Plourde was given permission to talk about the new Metis charter. 1979 06. Micmac News - The Metis People Cultural and Development Society of NS.
"The Métis National Council does not recognize the existence of Métis communities in Quebec." The Metis National Council is one of the 2 National organizations who have a mandate to the Metis peoples of Canada. MNC and CAP/NCC have 2 very different definitions of what it means
to be Metis. Just because MNC gets millions to shut out the voices of the other Metis people, does not make them more legitimate! CAP/NCC is who repatriated the Metis peoples into the Canadian Constitution. The purpose of the NCC/CAP meetings is to ensure that 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆