O Consello Nacional Métis (MNC) é a organización política que representa a Nación Métis a nivel nacional e internacional. En 2002, o Consello definiu como métis: "unha persoa que se identifica como métis, distinta doutros pobos indíxenas, de ascendencia histórica da nación métis e que é aceptada pola propia nación".[5]
Asentamentos métis en Alberta.
Alberta é a única provincia canadense cun territorio métis recoñecido: os oito asentamentos Métis, cunha poboación de aproximadamente 5.000 habitantes en 5.100 km2[9] e as novas terras métis preto de Fort McKay, compradas ao Goberno de Alberta en 2017.[10]
A palabra métis é orixinalmente un termo francés para describir unha 'persoa de filiación mixta' e deriva da palabra latina mixticius, de mixtus, 'mesturado'.[11][12][13] É un termo afín ao mestizo.
↑Kermoal, N.; Andersen, C. (2021). Daniels v. Canada: In and Beyond the Courts. University of Manitoba Press. p.45. ISBN978-0-88755-931-0. Consultado o Dec 3, 2022. Its historic homeland includes large parts of what are now known as the Prairie provinces, extending into parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the northwest United States
↑"Métis Homeland". Rupertsland Institute. Consultado o 2021-07-24. Métis villages sprang up along the riverways from the Great Lakes to the Mackenzie Delta. The Rupert's Land territory included all or parts of present-day Northwest-Nunavut Territory, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, and became known to the Métis as the "Métis Homeland."
↑Andersen, C. (2014). Métis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood. UBC Press – Rupertsland Centre for Métis Research in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. p.108. ISBN978-0-7748-2723-2. The MNC's narrative traces the geographical boundaries of what it terms the "Métis Homeland" to the historical waterways from northern Ontario to British Columbia and from the Northwest Territories to the northern United States.
