{"id":24249,"date":"2020-07-31T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=24249"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:08","slug":"insight-grants-2020-the-case-of-metis-acadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2020\/insight-grants-2020-the-case-of-metis-acadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Insight Grants 2020: The Case of M\u00e9tis Acadians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Insight Grants 2020: The Case of M\u00e9tis Acadians\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Professor Sebastien Malette<\/a> has focused on unrecognized M\u00e9tis and non-status Indigenous communities in the Eastern provinces of Canada. He is the co-author of three books on the subject, including his latest, entitled Bois-Brul\u00e9s: The untold story of the M\u00e9tis of Western Qu\u00e9bec<\/em> (UBC, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His latest project, funded by a $203,999 SSHRC Insight Grant, is entitled \u201cMe\u0301tis Acadians? An investigation into the legal arguments of the Kouchibouguac families against her Majesty the Queen.\u201d It considers how one hundred Acadian M\u00e9tis families who were expropriated when Kouchibouguac Park was created are now deploying a new legal strategy. They are demanding compensation from Canada under an alleged ancestral title under the protection of Hereditary Mi\u2019kmaq chief Stephen Augustine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis innovative argument allows us to move beyond accusations that the Eastern Me\u0301tis would necessarily pose an existential threat to Indigenous sovereignties,\u201d explains Malette. \u201cRather, by accommodating those Acadian Me\u0301tis willing to adhere to and assume their responsibilities vis-\u00e0-vis Indigenous laws and institutions to ensure their recognition as championed by Chief Augustine, the Acadian Me\u0301tis diaspora could very well be in a position to side-step the Canadian legal mechanism of recognition derived by section 35 altogether in favour of Indigenous legal norms. In such a radical anti-colonial scenario, the Acadian Me\u0301tis would thus reinforce existing Mi\u2019kmaq political and legal institutions rather than competing against them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In collaboration with anthropologists, Drs. Michel Bouchard (UNBC), Siomonn Pulla (Royal Roads University) and Denis Gagnon (University of Saint-Boniface), this project will explore the historical and ethnographic evidence associated with the Acadian M\u00e9tis diaspora, as well as the legal implications associated with this novel argument articulated by the families of Kouchibouguac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Sebastien Malette has focused on unrecognized M\u00e9tis and non-status Indigenous communities in the Eastern provinces of Canada. He is the co-author of three books on the subject, including his latest, entitled Bois-Brul\u00e9s: The untold story of the M\u00e9tis of Western Qu\u00e9bec (UBC, 2020). His latest project, funded by a $203,999 SSHRC Insight Grant, is entitled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1,27,24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","category-news","category-publications","category-research-grants","category-research-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24253,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249\/revisions\/24253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}