OK WHAT MAKES METIS PEOPLE DISTINCT....

.....OK WHAT MAKE'S METIS PEOPLE DISTINCT.....

For a number of years ...the MNC/INC..MMF/INC have bandied this phrase about but have not to date explained what exactly this means......I will not to-day outline my thinking on the distinctiveness of the metis people,or the metis nation...but let me give you a hint.!!! the objective here is to get metis people thinking!!!!! let me begin by going back to the period prior to 1870...the thinking and policy behind Canada!!!!this is how they viewed the inhabitants in the red river... Canada would recognize land transactions of the HBC prior to 1870........The metis will be treated as other citizens of canada...The indian people will come under the Crown..Treaties will be signed with them where they will be under the protection of the Crown with the force of a TREATY..!!!!!keeping in line with previous treaties sign by the British Crown!!!!before Canada took a Nationhood form of A Government in 1867 .............Canada place the metis people within their Jurisdiction...That is how Canada saw the DISTINCTIVENESS of the metis people... This Policy lasted Until 1982 where they(canada) decided to place the metis people within the Aboriginal Context..Again Due to the DISTINCTIVENESS of the metis people....... Metis people Had no input into these matter's everything was done without the consent of the metis people...BUT all is not lost..!!!!!!!The Metis Nation can Correct all this simply by taking charge of their lifes as a People!!!!!!!

Fortunat Guiboche Feb 1 st 2008..