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MNO’s Founding Métis Values

  • Writer: Ontario Métis Facts
    Ontario Métis Facts
  • May 7
  • 1 min read

The Métis Nation of Ontario’s Founding Delegates Assembly was held from May 5 to 7, 1994, and included Founding Delegates from the seven historic Métis communities in northern Ontario as well as Métis with ancestral connections to more western parts of the Homeland who lived in Ontario at that time.


Throughout the Assembly, Founding Delegates received several presentations, including those from leadership and their supporting legal counsel, and debated and passed numerous motions related to core Métis self-government issues like citizenship, elections, rights, and reporting.


Among the motions passed at the MNO’s 1994 Founding Delegates Assembly was a list of founding Métis values that would help to guide the MNO’s future growth and direction. These founding Métis values included:


  • Democracy

  • Long-term decision

  • Equality

  • Community

  • Fairness and justice and humanitarianism

  • Education and learning

  • Land and resources

  • Self-sufficiency

  • Cooperativeness

  • Family building for our nation

  • Expression of our culture

  • Honesty


Many of these founding Métis values would become further enshrined within the Métis Nation of Ontario’s Statement of Prime Purpose, which continues to guide the MNO’s governance and decision-making to this day.


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