{"id":55251,"date":"2017-11-25T02:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T02:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55251"},"modified":"2017-11-25T02:45:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T02:45:58","slug":"cultural-and-ethnic-labels-do-not-lend-themselves-to-neat-boundaries-metis-can-refer-to-the-historic-metis-community-in-manitobas-red-river-settlement-or-it-can-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55251","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCultural and ethnic labels do not lend themselves to neat boundaries. \u2018M\u00e9tis\u2019 can refer to the historic M\u00e9tis community in Manitoba\u2019s Red River Settlement or it can be used as a general term for anyone with mixed European and Aboriginal heritage.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is no consensus on who is considered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M\u00e9tis<\/a> or a non-status Indian, nor need there be,\u201d the court wrote. \u201cCultural and ethnic labels do not lend themselves to neat boundaries. \u2018M\u00e9tis\u2019 can refer to the historic M\u00e9tis community in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_River_Colony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manitoba\u2019s Red River Settlement<\/a> or it can be used as a general term for anyone with mixed European and Aboriginal heritage.\u201d For eastern M\u00e9tis, proof of the latter is enough. Their organizations typically accept anyone who can provide a genealogical chart showing an Indigenous ancestor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Graeme Hamilton, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who gets to be Metis? As more people self-identify, critics call out opportunists<\/a>,\u201d <em>National Post<\/em>, November 23, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/who-gets-to-be-metis-as-more-people-self-identify-critics-call-out-opportunists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/who-gets-to-be-metis-as-more-people-self-identify-critics-call-out-opportunists<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no consensus on who is considered M\u00e9tis or a non-status Indian, nor need there be,\u201d the court wrote. \u201cCultural and ethnic labels do not lend themselves to neat boundaries. \u2018M\u00e9tis\u2019 can refer to the historic M\u00e9tis community in Manitoba\u2019s Red River Settlement or it can be used as a general term for anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27681,2858],"class_list":["post-55251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-graeme-hamilton","tag-national-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55252,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55251\/revisions\/55252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}