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chris gadsden

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The Dance Has Started
« on: April 25, 2009, 11:21:46 AM »

The dance has started!

Bill Otway



PUBLICATION:  The Winnipeg Sun
DATE:  2009.01.12
EDITION:  Final
SECTION:  Editorial/Opinion
PAGE:  8
COLUMN:  Letters to the Editor

PANDORA'S BOX

Re: 'Win for Metis hunters,' Jan. 9. Kudos to the Manitoba Metis Federation for securing an "aboriginal" right to hunt without a licence on traditional indigenous territory. The next question should be who actually is a "Metis"?
Technically anyone can claim to be a "Metis" considering the MMF does not have absolute or legal authority in determining who is or who is not a "Metis" person in Manitoba.

Actually all one has to do is self-identify as a "Metis" which is one of the requirements for identification as an "aboriginal" person (is Goodon a traditional "Metis" name?).

Another question that should be determined is where in history did the Anishanabe, Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples of Manitoba cede our rights to our traditonal land to the so-called "Metis"? The indigenous peoples of Manitoba negotiated treaties with the British Crown and not with the so-called "Metis."

This court decision has opened a Pandora's box on racial and cultural fraud in Manitoba -- let alone extreme poaching of Manitoba wildlife.

Craig Fontaine.
Sagkeeng First Nation