Raceshifting

Location: New Richmond, QC Origins: 2006 Status Active Registration: Documented link to a métis or Indigenous ancestor, requested in registration, sworn claim. Accepts a number of root ancestors who are French women. Many members have no Indigenous ancestry at all. Cost: $30/year; 1st time member = $30. History: First existed as a 9-person hunting rights group opposed to territorial agreement between Mi’kmaq and Government of Quebec. See “Self-made metis” Formerly Communauté métisse de la Gaspésie Formerly Communauté métisse Autochtone de la…

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Location: Sept-Îles, QC Origins: 2012 Status Active Registration: Documented Indigenous ancestor in genealogy, sworn claim in registration Cost: $200/1st-time, $40/year. (1st time member = $240) History: Broke away from Communauté métisse du domaine du Roy et de la Seigneurie de Mingan in 2012. Its founding President was founder of the Association pour le droit des blancs, a “white rights” org that worked against Innu rights in the region. # of Members: About 2,000 (April 2017) Connections: Signed “treaty” with MFC…

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Location: Jonquière, QC Origins: 2013 Status: Active Registration: Documented link to a métis or Indigenous ancestor, requested in registration Cost: $200/1st-time, $40/year, $20/card. (1st time member total = $260) History: Broke away from Communauté métisse du domaine du Roy et de la Seigneurie de Mingan in 2013. # of Members: 4,800 members in 2013. (3,500 to 4,500 adult members in CMDRSM in 2013). Connections: “Treaty” partner of MFC Contact: http://www.metiscentrenord.com/bienvenue/index_bienvenue.html Supporting Docs Court Cases Procureure générale du Québec c. Tremblay