Bead by Bead
Constitutional Rights and Metis Community
Published on 26. May 2021
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-0-7748-6596-8 (ISBN)
Description
What does the phrase Metis peoples mean in constitutional terms? As lawyers and scholars debate the nature and scope of Metis identity and constitutional rights, understanding Metis experience of colonization is fundamental to achieving reconciliation.
In Bead by Bead, contributors address the historical denial of Metis concerns and claims with respect to land, resources, and governance. Tackling such themes as the invisibility of Metis women in court decisions, identity politics, and racist legal principles, they uncover the troubling issues that plague Metis aspirations for a just future.
This nuanced analysis of the parameters that current Indigenous legal doctrines place around Metis rights discourse moves beyond a one-size-fits-all approach. By revealing the complexity and diversity of Metis identities and lived reality, it opens new pathways to respectful, inclusive Metis-Canadian constitutional relationships.
In Bead by Bead, contributors address the historical denial of Metis concerns and claims with respect to land, resources, and governance. Tackling such themes as the invisibility of Metis women in court decisions, identity politics, and racist legal principles, they uncover the troubling issues that plague Metis aspirations for a just future.
This nuanced analysis of the parameters that current Indigenous legal doctrines place around Metis rights discourse moves beyond a one-size-fits-all approach. By revealing the complexity and diversity of Metis identities and lived reality, it opens new pathways to respectful, inclusive Metis-Canadian constitutional relationships.
Reviews / Votes
"Finally, we have a source that in a single place provides material and commentary that will support informed debate and help to come to grips with the questions of Metis identity, community, and constitutional rights. . . . This book accurately addresses who we are: as a people with common values, traditions, culture, way of life, family ties, history, communities and shared territory. . . . There is no question of its value, the knowledge we gain from it and how it will augment everyone's perspective of the issues of Metis."-Tony Belcourt, OC, first president of the Native Council of Canada and founding president of the Metis Nation of Ontario "Finally, we have a source that in a single place provides material and commentary that will support informed debate and help to come to grips with the questions of Metis identity, community, and constitutional rights. . . . This book accurately addresses who we are: as a people with common values, traditions, culture, way of life, family ties, history, communities and shared territory. . . . There is no question of its value, the knowledge we gain from it and how it will augment everyone's perspective of the issues of Metis."-- Tony Belcourt, OC, first president of the Native Council of Canada and founding president of the Metis Nation of Ontario
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-6596-8 (9780774865968)
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Persons
Yvonne Boyer is a Michif with her Metis ancestral roots in the Red River. She was the associate director of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, part-time professor of law at the University of Ottawa, and is the author of Moving Aboriginal Health Forward: Discarding Canada's Legal Barriers. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2018. Larry Chartrand is a citizen of the Metis Nation (Michif), professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, and a former director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. He was the principal investigator for a SSHRC research project on Metis treaties that led to Metis Treaties in Canada: Past Realities and Present Promise.
Contributors: Brodie Douglas, Karen Drake, Christopher Gall, Adam Gaudry, Sebastien Grammond, Brenda L. Gunn, Thomas Isaac, Wanda McCaslin , Darren O'Toole, Jeremy Patzer, Signa A. Daum Shanks, D'Arcy Vermette
Contributors: Brodie Douglas, Karen Drake, Christopher Gall, Adam Gaudry, Sebastien Grammond, Brenda L. Gunn, Thomas Isaac, Wanda McCaslin , Darren O'Toole, Jeremy Patzer, Signa A. Daum Shanks, D'Arcy Vermette
Content
Foreword / Tony Belcourt
Introduction / Yvonne Boyer, Larry Chartrand, and Wanda McCaslin
1 Metis Identity Captured by Law: Struggles over Use of the Category Metis in Canadian Law / Sebastien Grammond
2 Recognition and Reconciliation: Recent Developments in Metis Rights Law / Thomas Isaac
3 Shifting the Status Quo: The Duty to Consult and the Metis of British Columbia / Christopher Gall and Brodie Douglas
4 The Resilience of Metis Title: Rejecting Assumptions of Extinguishment / Adam Gaudry and Karen Drake
5 Where Are the Women? Analyzing the Three Metis Supreme Court of Canada Decisions / Brenda L. Gunn
6 Manitoba Metis Federation and Daniels: "Post-Legal" Reconciliation and Western Metis / Jeremy Patzer
7 Colonial Ideologies: The Denial of Metis Political Identity in Canadian Law / D'Arcy Vermette
8 Metis Aboriginal Rights: Four Legal Doctrines / Darren O'Toole
9 Suzerainty, Sovereignty, Jurisdiction: The Future of Metis Ways / Signa A. Daum Shanks
Afterword / Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand
Index
Introduction / Yvonne Boyer, Larry Chartrand, and Wanda McCaslin
1 Metis Identity Captured by Law: Struggles over Use of the Category Metis in Canadian Law / Sebastien Grammond
2 Recognition and Reconciliation: Recent Developments in Metis Rights Law / Thomas Isaac
3 Shifting the Status Quo: The Duty to Consult and the Metis of British Columbia / Christopher Gall and Brodie Douglas
4 The Resilience of Metis Title: Rejecting Assumptions of Extinguishment / Adam Gaudry and Karen Drake
5 Where Are the Women? Analyzing the Three Metis Supreme Court of Canada Decisions / Brenda L. Gunn
6 Manitoba Metis Federation and Daniels: "Post-Legal" Reconciliation and Western Metis / Jeremy Patzer
7 Colonial Ideologies: The Denial of Metis Political Identity in Canadian Law / D'Arcy Vermette
8 Metis Aboriginal Rights: Four Legal Doctrines / Darren O'Toole
9 Suzerainty, Sovereignty, Jurisdiction: The Future of Metis Ways / Signa A. Daum Shanks
Afterword / Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand
Index