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The Indian Register is the official record of people registered under the Indian Act in Canada, called status Indians or registered Indians. [nb 1] People registered under the Indian Act have rights and benefits that are not granted to other First Nations people, Inuit, or Métis, the chief benefits of which include the granting of reserves and of rights associated with them, an extended ...
The Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF) is a federally recognized Métis government. Its current president is David Chartrand . In September of 2021, the MMF withdrew from the Métis National Council , due to that organization's failure to uphold the 2002 nationally accepted definition of Métis .
Road allowance communities were settlements established by Métis people in Canada in the late 1800s through most of the 20th century on road allowances at the margins of settler society. Road allowances are frequently unused portions of land established by the Dominion Land Survey for road and rail access to settlements.
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) (formerly the Native Council of Canada and briefly the Indigenous Peoples Assembly of Canada), founded in 1971, is a national Canadian aboriginal organization that represents Aboriginal peoples (Non-Status and Status Indians, Métis, and Southern Inuit) who live off Indian reserves in either urban or rural areas across Canada. [1]
[citation needed] The Canadian Métis Council comprises over 50 community councils and affiliate Métis organizations in every province of Canada. [ citation needed ] Governed by a board of directors, the Canadian Métis Council is a non-profit corporation concerned with cultural issues, harvesting rights, education, health, youth, justice and ...
The Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF), founded in 1967, is the only officially recognized Métis Government in Canada. [ 117 ] On July 6, 2021, the MMF signed the Manitoba Métis Self-Government Recognition and Implementation Agreement with the Government of Canada at Upper Fort Garry , which provided immediate recognition of the MMF as the ...
This Council was formed to advocate at the federal level in Canada, which became particularly important with Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. It is a recognized voice of the Métis people in three Canadian provinces to the Government of Canada, and represents these Métis people on the international stage. The National Council is ...
The provisional government pressured the Canadian government to guarantee certain Métis and francophone rights in Manitoba. In 1869, the government of Canada dispatched surveyors to survey Rupert's Land , with the transfer of the territory expected to occur in the next year. [ 5 ]