Wait so now "we" care what natives think? It doesn't really matter what a full blood first nation think about Metis. Metis are a distinct group of people from the prairie provinces. Yes, we spread out like most people do. The biggest hit to Metis identity are the people that claim Metis have a claim from coast to coast. I think a lot of people need to brush up on Canadian history.
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Wait so now "we" care what natives think? It doesn't really matter what a full blood first nation think about Metis. Metis are a distinct group of people from the prairie provinces. Yes, we spread out like most people do. The biggest hit to Metis identity are the people that claim Metis have a claim from coast to coast. I think a lot of people need to brush up on Canadian history.
Donny Fenn1
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At this point are there any "full blood First Nations"? What does that even mean? Off the top of my head all the treaty card holders I know are at least 1/4 "white", does that not make them Metis?
Metis is/was a distinct group. If a native (status indian) has a child with a white person they are not Metis.
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Denying Metis have a distinct identity is as ridiculous as claiming voyageurs were German and there were historic Metis settlements west of the rockies. This thread is a gong show...
Our country has certainly done wrong by the Metis people. Scrip, forced removals, etc, etc etc
The Powley test requires Metis people to be part of a recognized Metis community. Big difference between being a member of a Metis settlement in Northern AB, Sask or Manitoba and joining the BC Metis Nation because of one Red River ancestor 150 years ago...
History? All made up by the church and state you know
Our country has certainly done wrong by the Metis people. Scrip, forced removals, etc, etc etc
The Powley test requires Metis people to be part of a recognized Metis community. Big difference between being a member of a Metis settlement in Northern AB, Sask or Manitoba and joining the BC Metis Nation because of one Red River ancestor 150 years ago...
History? All made up by the church and state you know
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Denying Metis have a distinct identity is as ridiculous as claiming voyageurs were German and there were historic Metis settlements west of the rockies. This thread is a gong show...
Our country has certainly done wrong by the Metis people. Scrip, forced removals, etc, etc etc
The Powley test requires Metis people to be part of a recognized Metis community. Big difference between being a member of a Metis settlement in Northern AB, Sask or Manitoba and joining the BC Metis Nation because of one Red River ancestor 150 years ago...
History? All made up by the church and state you know
This is from the early 1800's, what sort of names are Wentzel and Snyder?
"They told us that two of the loaded canoes, which stopped to repair below the Sault the evening before, had not yet arrived. We therefore told them to wait a couple of hours longer, at the expiration of which, if they did not arrive, we should proceed. Took a late breakfast, shortly after which we bade farewell to my friend M'Gillis, who accompanied us to the beach. Seeing no appearance of the two canoes, we ordered our men to make little use of the paddles; and as the day was remarkably fine, after descending a few miles, Wentzel, M'Neill, and I landed, and proceeded seven or eight miles on a good road running parallel with the river, until we arrived at an excellent tavern kept by a curious and eccentric person named Snyder, a German by birth"
"I derived much pleasure from the conversation of my two new compagnans de voyage, Messrs. Wentzel and M'Neill. The former had been upwards of sixteen years in the Indian country, principally in the department of Athabasca,and had obtained a thorough knowledge of the manners, customs, and language of the natives of that quarter."
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My metis friend is whiter than my white Irish ass..
The names of a Hudson Bay Company employees and an innkeeper on lake superior?
But yes I'll eat crow. Vast majority of voyageurs were "canadiens" and metis culture is a hybrid of French and Eastern First nations. Ever heard spoken Michif?
But yes I'll eat crow. Vast majority of voyageurs were "canadiens" and metis culture is a hybrid of French and Eastern First nations. Ever heard spoken Michif?
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saskgunowner101
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I suppose you figure all Mexicans are "brown brown" too? You do realize people come in all different shades, right? I'm a white guy and yet the sun sticks to me like #### on a blanket...I'm often darker than lots of natives around here, yet there's just a splash 5 generations back. My wife is metis (ties to Batoche) and is white as a ghost. Should she be visually dark skinned to be an actual metis? Don't think being "kinda/somewhat brown" is a requirement for being metis.
A Metis woman I know told me "Metis women throw pups of different colours". Might not go down well in woker circles but the point stands and it's alright to say stuff like that if it's folksy right?
To be Metis legally you need to: self identify, be a part of a current Metis community (herein lies the can of worms) and have ties to an historical Metis community (like the secret ones west of the rockies ?)
To be Metis legally you need to: self identify, be a part of a current Metis community (herein lies the can of worms) and have ties to an historical Metis community (like the secret ones west of the rockies ?
)watch out if you bring the louis Riel card some will bring the french speaking card ...
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I'm well aware, it was a joke. That you don't need to be darker skin to be native. I'm in a multi cultural family. Middle Eastern, Irish, African, probably some native in our family.
Louis Riel was a francophone ...
Most gun owners I know break the law. Does that represent you?
Louis fuel was metis. Native and French.
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What are you smoking? Did they teach 2 plus 2 is 4 when you went to school?
That being said as a status indian and registered Metis in BC I will will say the Metis claim in BC is ridiculous. To say there were more Hawaiians than Metis in BC is beyond retarded. Are you one?
I can also tell the mods are letting this go so they can infract the unfavorable.
Your ignorance is showing. The fur trade in the Northwest was run from Fort Vancouver (Washington State) and Fort Victoria (Vancouver Island), supplies and communication were by Sea and Hawaiians were an intergral part of it. The HBC even had a Post in Hawaii.
My ex was Salish and white, her great grandmother was Hawaiian
Big population on SSI in the day, part of a triangle trade, VI, Hawaii, China. Salt, salmon, furs and ceramics iirc
One of the first guys to run the Columbia River was a Hawaiian, think he was with a Frenchman an English man in charge and a Iroquois hanging out. People got around during the fur trade
Big population on SSI in the day, part of a triangle trade, VI, Hawaii, China. Salt, salmon, furs and ceramics iirc
One of the first guys to run the Columbia River was a Hawaiian, think he was with a Frenchman an English man in charge and a Iroquois hanging out. People got around during the fur trade
