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List of Métis people

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List of Métis people
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The Métis are a specific group of people, primarily from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, who have Indigenous (primarily Cree, Ojibwa) and European (primarily French) ancestry.[1][2] They have a shared history and Michif language.

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Prominent Métis

Historical

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Louis Riel, c. 1884
  • Howard Adams, Métis activist, author, and leader
  • Andre Beauchemin, Métis; First Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for St. Vital (French Party) 1870–1874. In November 1872, Beauchemin offered to resign his seat in the Manitoba assembly so that Riel could be elected in a by-election
  • Pierre Bottineau, Minnesota frontiersman, surveyor, diplomat and translator
  • James P. Brady, Métis politician and activist
  • Pierre Delorme, Métis politician and activist. Elected as a Member of Parliament in 1871, defeated in 1874 and re-elected in 1878[3]
  • Gabriel Dumont, Métis military leader during the North-West Rebellion
  • Cuthbert Grant, Métis political and military leader
  • James Isbister, was a Canadian Métis leader and he is considered to be the founder of the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
  • Thomas McKay, was a Metis farmer and political figure who was the first mayor of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
  • John Norquay, Métis politician, Premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887
  • Malcolm Norris, Métis politician, activist, and leader. Norris was a founder and the first vice-president of the first Alberta Métis organization (1932) called the Association des Métis d’Alberta et des Territories du Nord-Ouest (Alberta Métis Association). In 1964, he headed the Métis Association of Northern Saskatchewan
  • Louis Riel, Métis leader who led the Red River Rebellion in 1869 - 1870, the provisional government of Rupert's Land, Manitoba's entry into Confederation in 1870; later led the North-West Rebellion in 1885[4] Riel was elected three times to the House of Commons for Provencher riding; first, in the general election of 1873, the government subsequently resigned over the Pacific Scandal in November 1873. Riel was reelected in February 1874, then expelled, then ran in the subsequent by-election, was reelected and expelled again[5]
  • Guillaume Sayer, a Métis fur trader whose trial was a turning point in the ending of the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) of the fur trade in North America[6]
  • Louis Schmidt, Métis politician, Riel's Secretary and, in their youth, Riel's classmate. Born in 1844 he was known as Louis Laferté until Bishop Taché changed it in 1858. Louis Schmidt made the first of numerous petitions on behalf of the Métis' to the federal government over rights to their lands and their call for proper political representation. See Louis Schmidt: A Forgotten Métis in Riel and the Métis Ed. A.S Lussier (1979) Manitoba Métis Federation Press

Architects

  • Douglas Cardinal, architect; of Métis and Blackfoot ancestry. He designed the Museum of Canadian History and did the building designs for the Oujé-Bougoumou community of the James Bay Cree. This work won the “We the People” United Nations Community Award[7]

Artists and writers

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George R. D. Goulet, 2007 (shown carrying the Métis flag) and leading the Grand Entry at the Red River West celebration

Musicians

Politicians, activists, lawyers, physicians and judges

Military

Sports

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Sharon Bruneau, a Canadian champion bodybuilder

Others

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See also

Notes

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