Raceshifting

  Location: Little Dover, NS Origins: 2006 Status: Active Registration: Any Indigenous ancestor works for membership. Certified genealogy and DNA ancestry test through 23andme (no longer required as of 01/17). Cost: $75 application fee $25 per year. History: # of Members: Connections: Signed a “treaty” with Council of the First Métis People in Canada in 2018 Founding member of Nova Scotia Métis Alliance on July 13, 2018. Contact: http://www.easternshoremetis.com Supporting Docs Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquos, “Newsletter,” Summer 2018. Court Cases

  Location: Yarmouth, NS Origins: Incorporated in 1999. Status: Active Registration: Claim to be Wampanoag descendants Cost: History: Has had 3 other names that are different versions of the current one. http://web.archive.org/web/20040511123455/http://www.geocities.com:80/swnmetis/ # of Members: 3,000 members in 2010 Connections: Contact: https://www.facebook.com/Kespukwitk-M%C3%A9tis-Council-326519707545262/ Supporting Docs Canada. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. 1st. sess. 41st Parliament. Evidence. November 6 2012. https://sencanada.ca/en/Content/Sen/committee/411/appa/49788-e Court Cases R. v. Babin

  Location: Located in Yarmouth, NS Origins: Status: Active Registration: Any ancestry will do. “There is NO blood quantum required. We do not see ourselves as a percentage of our Native heritage, but as being 100% Metis Aboriginals and nothing else. Our members come from all walks of life and heritage – Mi’kmaq, Cree, Ojibwa, Blackfoot, Sioux or any other Native peoples. What joins our Metis people together is our commonalities, our inability to walk in either Indian or White…

Read More Read More

  Location: Yarmouth, NS. Origins: Started formal incorporation in 2008, as response to Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) “Powley Implementation Project” Status: Active Registration: “The AAMS will accept as a Regular member, any individual over the age of sixteen (16) years, who resides in Nova Scotia and beyond, whose families originated in mainland Nova Scotia, who self-identifies as Métis with an ancestral connection to a historical Acadian community, who provides genealogical proof of an ancestral connection to Acadian Métis heritage…

Read More Read More

  Location: Barrington Passage, NS Origins: Incorporated in 2003. Status: Active Registration: Cost: $130 first-time fee $30 annually thereafter. $40 genealogy service if needed. History: Also known as Subsachemship of Nova Scotia Wampanoag Claim to be Wampanoag descendants # of Members: Connections: Treaty” partner of Metis Federation of Canada Contact: http://nswampanoag-nsmetis.org Supporting Docs Canada. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. 1st. sess. 41st Parliament. Evidence. November 6 2012. https://sencanada.ca/en/Content/Sen/committee/411/appa/49788-e Court Cases

  Location: Petit de Grat, NS. Origins: First incorporated in 2016, active beforehand under different name(s). Status: Active Registration: Verified genealogy required. Cost: $100 first-time registration fee $50 annually therein.  History: formerly Unama’ki Voyageur Métis Nation Previous “chief” Greg Burke was ousted by board in March 2018. # of Members: Connections: “Treaty” partner of Metis Federation of Canada Founding member of Nova Scotia Métis Alliance on July 13, 2018. Contact: http://brasdorlakemetisnation.org Supporting Docs Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquos, “Newsletter,” Summer 2018….

Read More Read More

  Location: Chéticamp, NS Origins: 2016 Status: Active Registration: Verified genealogy required. Cost: First-time membership: $75 Annual fee: $25 History: At least one founding board member was a leader of protest against Mi’kmaw hunting in November 2015. # of Members: Connections: Signed “treaty” with Council of First Metis People of Canada in 2017 Founding member of Nova Scotia Métis Alliance on July 13, 2018. Contact: https://www.highlands-metis.com Supporting Docs Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquos, “Newsletter,” Summer 2018. Court Cases