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Negotiating an identity: Metis Political Organizations, the Canadian Government, and Competing Concepts of Aboriginality.
American Indian Quarterly, The, January, 2001 by Sawchuk, Joe
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This essay describes how the contemporary Metis of Canada have attempted to have their collective identities recognized by the Canadian government and its legal system, and the way the Canadian government has both resisted and accommodated this claim. Struggles for self-definition by aboriginal minorities against an encompassing nation-state are fraught with irony.
The very process of declaring oneself to be "Metis" (or "Indian" or "Inuit") means taking on aspects of identity and otherness that have been defined by the dominant society. Such irony has ...
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