For generations, Métis across the Homeland have fought for their distinct rights and recognition as ‘Halfbreeds’. During treaty negotiations, many wrote to the Crown and Indian Agents requesting to be treated as a distinct group, separate from their First Nations neighbours. On August 21, 1850, for example, Métis Hudson’s Bay Company employee John Swanston wrote from Michipicoten to HBC Governor, George Simpson, arguing for acknowledgement of the rights and claims of “Halfbre

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With only one exception, every Métis Nation Homeland map produced and used by the Métis National Council since its 1983 founding has...

Before the British and United States imposed the international border following the War of 1812, which displaced portions of the Upper...

January 27th, 2025, marks the 185th anniversary of the Penetanguishene Petition, through which members of the Georgian Bay Métis...