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Métis people in the United States are a specific culture and community, who descend from unions between Native American and early European colonist parents – usually Indigenous women who married French, and later Scottish or English, men, who worked as fur trappers and traders during the 17th to 19th centuries in the fur trade era.
that Métis and non-status Indians are "Indians" as the term is used in s 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, that the Queen owes a fiduciary duty to them as such, and that they have the right to be consulted by the federal government on a collective basis, respecting their rights, interests and needs as Aboriginal people.
This category is for Métis peoples and topics in the United States. Métis are a specific ethnic group descended from French, Scottish, and English colonists and Great Lakes and Plains Native American peoples from the 16th and 19th centuries at the height of the fur trade.
1) The Constitution was not signed on July 4, 1776, but on September 17, 1787. The majority (55 percent) of people said that it was signed in 1776, the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
The Constitution of the United States is the oldest and longest-standing written and codified national constitution in force in the world. [ 4 ] [ a ] The drafting of the Constitution , often referred to as its framing, was completed at the Constitutional Convention , which assembled at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between May 25 and ...
The Red River Rebellion (French: Rébellion de la rivière Rouge), also known as the Red River Resistance, Red River uprising, or First Riel Rebellion, was the sequence of events that led up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony, in the early stages of establishing today's Canadian province of Manitoba.
S.35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 mentions the Métis yet there has long been debate over legally defining the term Métis, [120] but on September 23, 2003, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Métis are a distinct people with significant rights (Powley ruling).
This page lists citizens of the United States who have identified as being Métis.This ethnic group developed from French, Scottish, and English traders and colonists who intermarried with Great Lakes and Plains Native peoples from the 18th and 19th centuries at the height of the fur trade.