Sault Metis Council

The Official Twitter Account for the Historic Sault Ste Marie Metis Council. 1812, Mica Bay, Powley, learning from our history to build our future. #Metispride

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I am a firm believer that we must work hard everyday to ensure the survival of our culture and way of… https://t.co/zn7VvZN1Xc

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Bear Creek singers singing loud and proud at the pow wow #nationalaboriginalday #Metis #firstnations https://t.co/puigZMxKDw

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Bear Creek singers singing loud and proud at the mini pow wow for national aboriginal day.… https://t.co/2vMpmqBWca

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Women's traditional dancers dancing proud at the mini pow wow. #nationalaboriginalday #firstnations… https://t.co/NMtLwaILGj

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Powwow male head dancer Jan Ritchie dancing proud at the mini pow wow. #Metis #firstnations… https://t.co/HxhEuf062M

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The Sault Métis Council tipi and the balloon pop game set up for the children to play and win prizes.… https://t.co/DbVB9AKoP5

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MNO staff setting up the MNO table at the Sault national aboriginal day events.… https://t.co/eqNRr9WUYV

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Got a nice fire burning in the Historic Sault Ste Marie Métis Council Tipi. #nationalaboriginalday… https://t.co/hYzhZglnPF

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The Historic Sault Ste Marie Métis Council tipi all set up and ready for National Aboriginal Day.… https://t.co/4knxucv5DM

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Setting up the Sault Ste Marie Metis Council tipi in preparation for National Aboriginal Day #metis… https://t.co/DJINkI1Q7N

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Métis saw it as their country, which they shared with their Cree, Saulteaux, and Assiniboine relatives, they didn't recognize HBC ownership.

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Métis soldiers kept the governor out, delayed the transfer, unified the settlement under the Provisional Government of Assiniboia.

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This blockade of the Canadian governor, in November 1869, began a long and proud tradition of Indigenous roadblocks in Canada.

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Métis forced Canada to negotiate, sent three delegates to Ottawa "to treat." They always used the language of treating/treaty-making.

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It's important to note that the Métis leadership saw itself as an independent people, not as some already existing part of the empire.

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The Treaty established a 1.4 million acre land reserve. Yep a reserve. For Métis. Métis wanted one (in 1885 too) despite myths otherwise.

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So, to @BohemianMaid's question on scrip, the scrip system was what replaced the Métis reserve Scrip was a unilateral Cdn government policy

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There were also drunk soldiers making Red River unsafe and undesireable. And there were speculators offering quick cash for scrip.

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The Manitoba scrip situation is why the privatization of reserve land today is potentially dangerous. Collective land holding protects land

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I'm not sure this Métis MB, a province where Métis agreed to join Confederation, ever came into existence. This is a different MB today.