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Jun 29, 2018 • 5 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Part 3 in @ChiuCBC + @CBCNews series on so-called "métis" groups in NS. Turns out that the feds have been meeting with 7 of the groups in the name of "reconciliation"! #selfindigenization #raceshifting

cbc.ca/news/canada/no…
It's worth posting this table again given attention that "Acadian-métis" organizations have been getting in media. Remember that organizations representing a distinct "métis" people in NS first emerged after the Marshall decision (1999) + again after the Powley decision (2003).
Another table looking at these remarkable stats from another angle. This time, the proportion of Aboriginal people identifying as Métis in the census:
The takeaway from the census numbers: Acadians in NS/NB increasingly identify as Métis between 1996 and 2001. This phenomenon occurs much more in NS than in NB from 2006-2016, even though the same ancestors are in play. How come?
One final takeaway - There are now more individuals identifying as "Acadian-métis" in NS than there are Mi'kmaq, even though Mi'kmaw population growth is more than provincial average. Growth in # of "Acadian-métis" due entirely to adult self-identification.

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Sep 14, 2018
ICYMI - Maisonneuve magazine is publishing an article that I wrote about the anti-Indigenous/white supremacist origins of 2 largest "Québec métis" organizations in its next issue, out @ newsstands TOMORROW! Follow along for a sneak peek 😉

maisonneuve.org/news/2018/09/6…
"In October 2004, a small group of hunters gathered in a large tent in the Chic Choc Mountains, south of Gaspésie National Park. Raymond Cyr, the director of an organization that delivers education for people with physical disabilities, had joined his cousin Marc LeBlanc, ...
a hunting and fishing guide, for the moose season. A tourist haven in the summer, the region becomes a hunting and fishing destination when the leaves start to turn. Rugged four-wheel drive and all-terrain vehicles, fully loaded trailers and weathered campers crisscross ...
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Aug 16, 2018
More evidence of the fraudulent conduct by "Eastern métis" individuals and organizations. Check out the membership card for the Communauté Wik Wam Sun Oté, the "treaty partner" of the Council of the First Métis People of Canada [sic].
That same organization in NB had previously signed a "treaty" with the Métis Federation of Canada [sic]. They then hosted the first assembly of the Council of First Métis People of Canada [sic] in summer 2016.
Their member walked into a gas bar in a Mi'kmaw community in NS earlier today and presented their card, claiming it was a "status" card that granted them a tax exemption. Staff recognized it as a fraudulent card for a number of reasons:
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Aug 3, 2018
Remember when a company tested 2 dogs as having "Indigenous" DNA? Well, it appears that the company, Accu-metrics (Viaguard), has now stopped offering its "First Nation, Metis & Native American DNA Testing Service." #raceshifting #selfindigenization

newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/dna-a…
But not before its service facilitated the race shifting process. Here's an example of a new "métis" org in QC that was created on the strength of their bogus DNA testing. They have a partnership agreement. #raceshifting #selfindigenization

nationnews.ca/metis-movement…
A few months later, the "chief" of that organization traveled to Paris with a range of other "chiefs" to file an official complaint with the UN about the federal government's non-recognition of their claims to Indigenous identity and rights.

lasentinelle.ca/communaute-de-…
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Aug 3, 2018
About a year ago, @adamgaudry and I published an article that analyzed 2 organizations facilitating race shifting: "White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere." Follow the thread for access to an important data source.

academia.edu/33742034/White…
I've since found an English-language translation of the brief that the (now) Métis Nation of the Rising Sun [sic] presented back in 2007 to the Bouchard-Taylor Commission arguing that there are no distinct Indigenous peoples in QC, only the "métis"! (4 pages of 6 attached).
The brief, presented to a public audience in Sherbrooke, starts by saying: "We present you this document as the only direct descendants of the First Peoples in QC, [...] whose members have been killed by microbial shock." #biologicalracism #raceshifting #selfindigenization
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Jul 22, 2018
Guess what? The race shifters have struck again --> #JustinTrudeau is "Eastern métis"! 🤨🤔

The Feds just met with this org to encourage "reconciliation" - and now they indigenize the Prime Minister through a French-woman-magically-turned-Indigenous. Follow the thread for more!
The story (see below) explains that #JustinTrudeau has Acadian ancestry through the Savoie patronym/line. François Savoie married Catherine Lejeune in present-day Nova Scotia in 1655. #raceshifting #selfindigenization

bcasey.liberal.ca/news-nouvelles…
There's active Acadian genealogy community seeking to identify Indigenous women in 1600s for purpose of constructing "Acadian-métis" identity today. Catherine Lejeune, a woman born in France, has fallen victim to the #selfindigenization movement through no fault of her own.
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Jul 20, 2018
"Mixed, but not Métis" - a very courageous op-ed (in French) by @rosellam critiquing the recent construction of "Acadian-métis" identity.

Follow the thread for a few choice excerpts, translated into English!

acadienouvelle.com/mon-opinion/20…
"I want to talk to you about Acadians who embarrass me. And for once, it's not about elected officials. I mean the Acadians who claim to be Métis out of the blue because they just found out that there might be benefits in doing so."
"Most have known all their lives that they may have an Aboriginal ancestor, but it's a legal decision favourable to Aboriginal peoples or a rumour of benefits that has made them proud of this ancestor, no matter how remote or uncertain they may be [re: that ancestor's identity]."
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