Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 3
6. Métis Identity Captured by Law: Struggles over Use of the Category Métis in Canadian Law 15
7. Recognition and Reconciliation: Recent Developments in Métis Rights Law 32
8. Shifting the Status Quo: The Duty to Consult and the Métis of British Columbia 52
9. The Resilience of Métis Title: Rejecting Assumptions of Extinguishment 71
10. Where Are the Women? Analyzing the Three Métis Supreme Court of Canada Decisions 94
11. Manitoba Metis Federation and Daniels: “Post-Legal” Reconciliation and Western Métis 113
12. Colonial Ideologies: The Denial of Métis Political Identity in Canadian Law 131
13. Métis Aboriginal Rights: Four Legal Doctrines 156
14. Suzerainty, Sovereignty, Jurisdiction: The Future of Métis Ways 177
15. Afterword 197
16. Contributors 199
17. Index 203