WHO ARE THE MÉTIS?
THE TRUE MÉTIS ARE IN QUEBEC; THOSE OF THE WEST ARE ONLY MIGRANTS OF THE ORIGINAL FAMILIES OF QUEBEC
I don't believe to detain the monopoly of the truth especially. Par against, I would like to make you know my truth, and that, until proof of the opposite. The definition of the Métis concept is a lot of ambigüe. I sometimes think, not to say always, that, our governments master this art very well all to say without saying anything. In other words, I believe that this ambigüite is more often than otherwise wanted by those that tell us what to do and how to make it. As Métis citizen, of blood mingled Innu and French and having several ties of
relationship with Louis David Riel, he doesn't remain less of them that I am a simple small Métis. I tell those that want to hear it, that a Métis, as small as he can be, trust what he is and that, as his forebears, he doesn't like to be a slave of the governments as he is a lot of peoples sometimes having little pride, like all peoples submitted and colonized, having lost gone en grande their identity, and this to the point or these peoples doesn't manage to more practically to think about them even as people. As Métis, we are a free Nation, a Nation that has for recognition that is own government. Our decision-makers say that it is necessary to belong to historic original families of the west Canadian of before 1850-51 and their descendants until 2008 and after. It is necessary to know also that it is only our people's minute historic part. The original families of the west of 1850-51 to today are only migrants because, his families come above all from Quebec and our people. It is at Quebec that one recovers the deep roots, the true stumps, and especially, the true Métis.
I don't need the west by no means to assume me as Métis. I know that I follow and from where I come. I am from here, of this earth mother who saw to be born my forebears, who saw me being born and that saw me to grow. My roots are under my feet and it is thanks to these roots and to their stumps that I know that I follow and where I go. No, I don't have really need of the west. Mr. Dennis Coderre, federal minister, wanted to whiten Louis David Riel of the treason accusation, but the west didn't want; those for that Riel had given its life, didn't want. The Métis of the west didn't want this rehabilitation as they don't want Métis of the true stump, of the earth mother whose creator made us gift. Louis David Riel had, him, this feeling of adherence with us, the Métis the the East.
Gentlemen the decision-makers, know this, Louis Riel said: Mine will sleep during hundred years, and when they will wake up, these will be the artists who will return them their mind. " The dial is going to sound soon and all Métis with pride he will raise, as Louis-David, and together they will shout. You will hear only one word, of the stump coming from the earth mother, that wind will bring of is in west.
I would like that you learned about an excerpt of the book of Georges-Hébert German çi-dessous; here is on what is based our Nation. The one that transports this way of thinking and to act is welcome in the Nation Métis Contemporary. Even though a full claimant all documents and that all is positf, he won't be able to enter in the Nation that if he possesses this philosophy.
The ten points, in the words of the Supreme court;
(1) qualification of the right (or what is the right claimed?)
(2) identification of the titular historic community of the rights.
(3) establishment of the existence of a titular contemporary community of the rights claimed
(4) verification of the claimant's adherence to the concerned present community
(5) determination of the applicable period
(6) did the practice make it integral part of the claimant's distinctive culture?
(7) establishment of the continuity between the historic practice and the contemporary right claimed
(8) had or non extinction of the right claimed?
(9) if the claimed right exists, did one undermine there?
(10) the attack is she justified?
The Crown must prove the point 8 on the extinction of an ancestral right and the point 10 on the justification of the restriction of a right.
In other words, the Claimants Métis have the burden to demonstrate eight points.
The first point is easy to answer. The Court asks what is the claimed ancestral right. The answer is the right to a practice of hunt, fishing or picking to nourish itself..
The point 6 raises the question of the claimant's distinctive cultural practice.