Kicked out of a movie night for the colour of my skin
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View ArticleU. Manitoba to house huge residential schools research centre
Thousands of Indigenous survivor stories to be archived
View ArticleMaclean’s Interview: John Ralston Saul
Q: Your new book, A Fair Country, opens with the startling claim that Canada is a Metis civilization, not a European one. What does that mean? A: You have to put aside the racial idea of the Metis. I’m...
View ArticleAre we a Metis Nation?
Ever since he burst onto the philosophical scene in 1992 with Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, a somewhat overdramatic look at the evolution of the western mind, John...
View ArticleAs to the historical legacy of Louis Riel
Conservative MP Peter Goldring has managed today the rare feat of uniting the Liberal party and the Prime Minister’s Office in scorn. “This document is absolutely not, in any way, an initiative of our...
View ArticleStolen bell of Batoche to be unveiled, returned to Saskatchewan Catholic bishop
BATOCHE, Sask. – People from across Canada are expected to visit a small Saskatchewan community this weekend to witness the return home of a significant piece of Metis history after 128 years. It’s...
View ArticleStudy of residential schools now mandatory in Alberta curriculum
EDMONTON – Alberta students are to be taught about the horrors and the painful legacy of Indian residential schools. The province has announced that all kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum will include...
View ArticleMetis leaders argue for same tax benefits as other elected officials
OTTAWA – Senior leaders at Canada’s largest Metis organization are vowing to keep up their fight in order to get the same tax-free treatment on their expense allowances as other people elected to...
View ArticleFederal government to stop funding payments to Saskatchewan Metis group
SASKATOON –The federal government says it is going to stop funding Metis Nation-Saskatchewan. A letter dated Wednesday from Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said the group failed to hold an...
View ArticleColleges promise to meld Indigenous learning into programming
Signing Protocol. The man on the left is Robert Everson, K’ómoks First Nation Chief Councillor. The man on the right is John Bowman, President, North Island College. (Lee Simmons/North Island College)...
View ArticleJudge rules foster parents may keep caring for Metis toddler
VANCOUVER – A Vancouver Island couple who feared a Metis toddler was about to be removed from their home say they will hug the little girl in celebration after a judge ruled they can keep her in their...
View ArticleCelebrated Metis poet delivers poignant view of residential school life
BLACK APPLE By Joan Crate Crate, a Metis novelist and poet, builds her novel around a unique literary relationship between a lonely Aboriginal girl at a residential school and the head nun who prepares...
View ArticleSupreme Court rules that Metis, non-status Indians are federal responsibility
Metis Federation leaders and delagates march to the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa on Thursday, April 14, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA – Canada’s 600,000 Metis and non-status...
View ArticleB.C. Metis commission’s role will expand, says ministry
VANCOUVER — British Columbia will expand the role of its Metis representative in the child welfare system, amid criticism of the province’s plan to adopt a Metis toddler to non-aboriginal parents in...
View ArticleOne of the biggest mysteries in Metis history gets even more puzzling
The Bell Of Batoche, officially displayed during Back to Batoche Days in Batoche, Sask., on Saturday, July 20, 2013. (Liam Richards/CP) Just when you think the mystery behind the Bell of Batoche has...
View ArticleHow ‘race-shifting’ explains the surge in the number of Métis in Eastern Canada
Métis Family and a Red River Cart, 1883. (State Historical Society of North Dakota, A4365) This piece first appeared at The Conversation. Since the early 2000s, there has been a meteoric rise in the...
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