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2011 Métis Law in Canada

Alternate Title
Métis Law in Canada 2011
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean Teillet
Description
Provides overview of Métis history, reviews significant agreements and legislation, indexes case law summaries and discusses new developments.
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Aboriginal Identity and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Chartrand
Canadian Issues, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canadian Society: 1982-2007, Fall, 2007, pp. 109-112
Description
Discusses Section 31 of the Manitoba Act of 1870 and Section 15 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982. To access article scroll to p. 109.
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Aboriginal Law: The Métis Hunting Case R. v. Powley

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fred R. Fenwick
Law Now, vol. 28, no. 4, February/March 2004, p. [?]
Description
Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada concerning traditional rights of Metis as Aboriginal peoples and recognition of the right to exercise them.
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Are We Metis or are We Indians? A Commentary on R. v. Grumbo

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larry N. Chartrand
Ottawa Law Review, vol. 31, 1999-2000, pp. 267-281
Description
One of the few cases that directly addresses Metis rights analyzed in the context of the Constitutional terms and when the right to hunt may be exercised.
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A Buffalo Hunt

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cornelius J. Jaenan
Manitoba Pageant, vol. 9, no. 2, January 1964, p. [?]
Description
Excerpts from a description written by Rev. George Antoine Belmont of a buffalo hunt which took place in 1845.
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Canadian Supreme Court To Rule On Historic Metis Rights Case

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Celeste Mackenzie
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 2, Shamanisms and Survival, Summer, 2003
Description
Comments on a court case that will push the federal and provincial governments to discuss Métis rights and accept a definition of who is Métis.
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Changes Come to the Canadian Prairies

Alternate Title
Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Michael Cranny]
Description

Focuses on the numbered treaties and their effect on First Nations and the Métis, and the causes and impacts of the North-West Resistance. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies students.

Chapter from Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity, 2nd Edition, by Michael Cranny.

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The Commission of 1885 to the North-West Territories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
H. H. Langton
[W. P. R. Street]
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 25, no. 1, March 1944, pp. 38-53
Description
Background to the Commission's role in enumerating Métis entitled to land, followed by transcript of Chief Commissioner's account of its activities.
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La communauté comme sujet et objet du droit: implications

pour les Métis du Canada = The Law of the Community and Community Rights: Implications for the Métis in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natacha Gagné
Claudie Larcher
Sébastien Grammond
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 142-163
Description
Based on analysis of transcripts of Hirsekorn case in which judges had to render a decision on the Métis identity of the accused and his membership in a rights-holding Métis community.
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Conflicting Plans

Alternate Title
Métis Development in the Canadian West ; 4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Calvin Racette
Description

2nd edition.

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Constituting Aboriginal Collectivities: Avoiding New Peoples "In Between"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert K. Groves
Bradford W. Morse
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 67, no. 1, 2004, pp. 257-300
Description
Discussion of section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 and the fact that 22 years after its enactment, it is still unclear what "recognition" of aboriginal and treaty rights means.
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The Constitutional Status and Rights of the Métis People in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul L. A. H. Chartrand
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 120-131
Description
Focuses on development of doctrine of Aboriginal rights by the courts since the 1982 amendment and defining who constitutes the "Métis people" in section 35.
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The Context for Métis Justice Issues

Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Kathleen Makela
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing Metis rights to self-government, lands, and how these pertain to law and justice. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
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Courts Did What Politicians Wouldn't

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, September 29, 2003, p. B1
Description
Explains that the hunting rights awarded to the Métis is really a legal recognition of their special rights under the constitution as a people.
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[Daniels in Context]

Alternate Title
Daniels: In and Beyond the Law
Harry Daniels and the Daniels Case: A Son's Perspective on the Man, His Legacy and Vision for a United Métis Nation
Threading the Constitutional Needle with Sinew of Métisland and Métis
[What Brought It On - and Did We Get What We Wanted?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tony Belcourt
Elmer Ghostkeeper
Gabriel Daniels
Maria Campbell
Description
Speakers discuss struggles for Métis rights and recognition which led to Daniels case and the Supreme Court's ruling that Métis and non-Status individuals fall within the definition of "Indian" in section 91(24) of the Constitution Act,1867; Maria Campbell reminisces about leader Harry Daniels, who initiated the court action. Duration: 1:59:52. Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
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Daniels v. Canada: Origins, Intentions, Futures

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Eliot Magnet
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 26-47
Description
Discusses case involving Métis and Non-Status Indians. Plaintiffs sought three declarations: that the two groups are "Indians" as defined by the Constitution Act, 1867; that the Crown owes a fiduciary duty to them; and they have the right to be consulted and negotiated with as to their rights, interests, and needs.
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Dealing with the “Community Conundrum”: Métis Responses to the Application of R v Powley in British Columbia—Litigation, Negotiation, and Practice

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Rights Litigation, Negotiation, and Practice among the Metis of BC: Community Perspectives on Creating Legal Change
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kerry Sloan
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 48-86
Description
Case developed requirement that s. 35 rights be vested in "historic" communities (existed before European control) and there must be continuity with present-day communities. Author interviewed 23 people about problems with application of the decision in three cases: Howse, Nunn, and Willison.
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Declaration of Metis and Indian Rights

Alternate Title
Declaration of Rights: Native Council of Canada--1979
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Council of Canada
Description
Outlines the major objectives of the Metis and non-status indigenous people in Canada. Appendices include: Metis National Anthem, Metis petitions for special rights 1845, List of Rights from Metis Provisional Government 1870, Constitutional and Legislative Recognition of Rights of Metis and Non-Status Indians, Metis Petitions, and the Principles of the Metis Movement.
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Documenting Historic Métis in Ontario

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwen Reimer
Jean-Philippe Chartrand
Ethnohistory, vol. 51, no. 3, Summer, 2004, pp. 567-607
Description
Identifies sources and methods for documenting Métis during the fur trade period in Ontario in order to investigate legal and historical questions related to contemporary rights of Métis in that province.
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Don McLean Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don McLean
Christine Welsh
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
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[Expressions In Canadian Native Studies]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joseph (Jay) H. Stauss
Native Studies Review, vol. 14, no. 2, 2001, pp. 149-151
Description
Book review of: Expressions In Canadian Native Studies edited by Ron F. Laliberte, Priscilla Settee, James B. Waldram ... et al.
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