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Métis News

Métis News

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We off and running 2024-25 school year!

We've already visited with hundreds of students and teachers across the region and we're looking forward to joining you and your students either in person or virtually.

 

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Below you can choose an education session adapted to meet your needs including

new topics and focused discussions.

 

Grades 4-12 and post-secondary, government, industry,

cultural groups and new immigrants to Canada etc.

 

What's best for you? 

virtual, in-class sessions,

or lunch and learn.

Session 1

Métis history, culture & celebrations:

Louis Riel & Gabriel Dumont

Proud to be Métis

Métis definition

Brief Métis history

Red RIver Metis​

Men & Women 

stories and legends

identity and relationships

Voyageurs & Carlton trail

 

Personal family history

Scottish roots

Great Grandfather - Fort Pelly

 

Family connection to

Louis Riel's provisional government, Battle of Batoche, and Trial of Louis Riel and the Métis

 

Grandfather on the trap-line

Métis culture

Infinity flag

the Flower Bead People​

Fiddle & Jigging

Sash and the Voyageurs

Red River Cart

Métis celebrations

​Ambassadors

Back to Batoche Days 

Show & tell

Qs & As

Session 2

Current Political State of Affairs

Brief Métis Historical recap

Scrip - the Greatest Land Swindle in Canadian History

Métis go underground - the Forgotten People

Road Allowance - Residential school

 

Métis continue struggle for Recognition

Métis constitutional battle 1982

Métis National Council 1983

Métis governing bodies

New era for MNC

Red River Métis

Powley test

MMF vs Canada

Daniels vs Canada​

 

Emerging and Outstanding issues

MMF modern treaty

Bill c-53

Indigenous Identity Theft

Métis membership

Scrip and land claims

Residential day schools

Harvesters rights

UNDRIP

Métis entrepreneurial spirit

Qs & As

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Session 3

Métis as Nation Builders

Who are the Métis

Ruperts land

Jay Treaty - trading routes​

governance

policing​

Louisiana purchase - Louis and Clark expedition

Battle of 1812

Franklin expedition

Métis in the U.S.

Sac-Fox Half-breeds​

Red River settlement

Cuthbert Grant & ​the Pemmican Act

Louis Riel​ and his Provisional Government

Fenian Brotherhood - Irish movement

Manitoba Act - U.S. impact

Red River Resistance

Riel in Exile

Northwest Rebellion

​​New era - new relationship

UNDRIP​

​Reconciliation

Qs & As

Focused discussion

Residential Schools

History of the schools

Goal of the Residential School System

Day Schools

Impact on the Road Allowance

Dad's experience

Kamloops Residential School

Federal Actions

Denialism

Tk'emlups and Catholic doctrin

NDTR - September 30th 

Survivors Flag Raising

Reconciliation - renaming

Qs & As

Focused discussion

Indigenous Identity

Who are the Métis

Red River Métis

Effective Control

Red River Resistance

Northwest Rebellion

Impact of scrip

Metis Governing Bodies

Identity theft

Impacts and outcomes

Next steps

Qs & As

Métis in Canada is a division of ASAP Communications

1599 concession Lefaivre, ON K0B 1J0 (613) 679-1818

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