MedicineLine.org
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Below The Medicine Line Metis Society
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Excerpted from the website:
- About Us
- The old term "medicine line" was once used by fleeing native people into what was a safety net into bordering and neighboring tribes of "the Queen's or Grandmother's Land". For others, it simply became a boundary that banished one from their homeland and relatives. Though economics may have been the original historic goal, the using of natives and mixed-bloods as a means to an end resulted in not only relocation of Metis families but also dissimilation of our culture. In the Pacific Northwest, our Metis ancestors faded into the background, after the arrival of the emigrants of the Overland Trail. Racial biases and slurs such as "breeds, squaw-men, and Indian-lovers" was intolerable, as was any form of inequality. Several French-Canadian communities were established or these mixed-bloods assimilated completely into the Indian Reservations. The Metis Nation learned to become "invisible". And, today we find that the general population does not know of the term "Metis", nor of the fact that we exist as a unique race of people. Canada uses the term "First Nations" which in itself concludes to an honoring of a people who preceded others; Metis identifies a nation of Euro-First Nation unions and their descendents.
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