In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada commented on the need for reconciliation with the Métis nation, stating, “The unfinished business of reconciliation of the Métis people with Canadian sovereignty is a matter of national and constitutional import.”
Can you speak to the impacts that the long history of Métis denialism and the historical reluctance to acknowledge the existence of Métis as a nation, a rights-bearing indigenous group, have had on your people?