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- Documented link to a métis or Indigenous ancestor, requested in registration, sworn claim.
- Accepts a number of root ancestors who are French women. Many members have no Indigenous ancestry at all.
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- $30/year; 1st time member = $30.
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- First existed as a 9-person hunting rights group opposed to territorial agreement between Mi’kmaq and Government of Quebec. See “Self-made metis”
- Formerly Communauté métisse de la Gaspésie
- Formerly Communauté métisse Autochtone de la Gaspésie, Bas-Saint-Laurent et Îles-de-la-Madeleine
- Its current, long-time “grand chief” publicly asserted title to all of “Eastern North America” in October 2017 TV interview. He also claimed they had over 20,000 members during the same interview.
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- In a note to its members on January 26, 2017, the organization claims to have 15,695 active members (including children).
- 5,000 members in 2010 (Michaux 2014)
- New Clan Menquit des Îles-de-la- Madeleine
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- Closely associated with Communauté métisse de l’Estrie; they presented a joint brief to the Bouchard- Taylor Commission in 2007 in which they said only Métis people exist in QC, no FN.
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