Monday, April 16, 2018

‘Our kids die in the child welfare system.’ The Métis Nation warns it’s losing kids at an alarming rate

Métis are the descendants of mixed Cree-French ancestry from the historic Métis Homeland in Manitoba and the Prairies. The 2016 Census found 89,405 in B.C. call themselves Métis, one-third of all Indigenous people. At least 16,000 of them are registered as citizens of the Métis Nation of B.C. The Métis language is Michif.

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