The Abitibi Inland Métis Community has long recognized and asserted itself as a distinct Métis collectivity with deep family and kinship...

In an effort to expand its territorial boundaries following Confederation, Canada implemented a series of formal and informal policies...

In 1902, as Canada prepared to negotiate Treaty 9 in the James Bay region, Indian Commissioner J.A. McKenna drew the government’s...

After being excluded from Treaty 9, a group of Métis at Moose Factory petitioned that they “have been born & brought up in the country... ”

Like many historic Métis communities in what is now Ontario, much of the Abitibi Inland Métis Community, including those living at Moose...

The Abitibi Inland Métis Community was known for its distinctive building practices that drew upon both First Nation and European...