There are very few published books which address the legal status and Aboriginal rights of Métis outside the prairie provinces. In fact most books on Aboriginal issues only deal with Métis rights as a subset of Indian and/or Inuit rights. Most of the materials which do address concerns of the Other Métis are either academic papers or position papers developed by Aboriginal organizations which, due to lack of resources, are not readily available to the public.

Fortunately, there are two partial exceptions to this situation. The most recent is the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples which commissioned a number of papers on Métis issues, some of which directly address the concerns of The Other Métis. The second source of documentation is the data collected by the Conference Secretariat during the First Ministers' Conferences on Aboriginal Matters between 1983 and 1992.

The Other Métis, represented at the time by the Native Council of Canada, expressed many positions and tabled many papers during that process. The exceptions are partial in that it is not clear how accessible that material is to the general public.

If people cannot readily access this data, they should at least be aware that it exists. Accordingly, in addition to readily available published materials, this list will include references to documents generated by Aboriginal organizations and by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

It should be noted that the Native Council Canada has changed its name to the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.

Access to Survival: A Perspective on Aboriginal Self-Government for the Constitutency of the Native Council of Canada, Martin Dunn, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, Kingston, 1986.

The Custom of the Country, An Examination of Fur Trade Marriage Practices, Sylvia Van Kirk, Canadian Historical Association, University of Toronto, 1974.

A Declaration of Metis and Indian Rights, with Commentary by Harry W. Daniels, Native Council of Canada, 1979.

The Denes of the Mackenzie and the Political Legitimacy of Canada, Morisset. Jean, in The Other Natives, The Métis, Vol. 3, (Eds) Lussier, Antoine S., and Sealey, D., Bruce, Manitoba Métis Federation Press, 1980.

The Development of Political Organizations, (Metis and non-Status Indians), Chapter 11 in The Metis, Canada's Forgotten People, D. Bruce Sealey, Antoine S. Lussier, Manitoba Metis Federation Press, 1975.

Ethnicity and the Concept of Metiness, D. Bruce Sealey, in The Other Natives. The Metis, Antoine S. Lussier, D. Bruce Sealey, Manitoba Metis Federation Press, 1980.

Ethnogenisis: The Settlement and Growth of a "New People" in the Great Lakes Region, 1702-1815, Jacqueline Peterson, in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol 6, No.2 1982.

Fort Timiskaming and the Fure Trade, Elaine Allan Mitchell, University of Toronto Press, 1977.

Fortune & La Tour, the Civil War in Acadia, MacDonald, M.A., Methuen Publications, Toronto 1983.

The French Relationship with Native Peoples of New France and Acadia, Cornelius J. Jaenen, for Research Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1984..

The Imperial Question of British North America, Jean Morisset, in As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows, a Reader in Canadian Native Studies, Al Getty and Antoine S. Lussier eds., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1983.

In Search of Your Roots, A guide for Canadians Seeking their Ancestors, Angus Baxter, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1978.

Many Tender Ties, Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870, Sylvia Van Kirk, Watson & Dwyer Publishing Ltd., 1980.

The Metis and 91(24): Is Inclusion the Issue?, A Research Paper Prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Don McMahon and Fred Martin, 1993.

Les Metis et L'idee de Canada, Jean Morisset, The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 3, No.1, 1983.

Metis: Peoples and Nations, NCC Constitutional Review Commission Working Paper #3, Native Council of Canada, 1992.

The Metis: The People and the Term, J. E. Foster, University of Alberta, October, 1978.

Mixed Bloods of Moose Factory, 1730-1981: A Socio-Economic Study, Carol Judd, in The Special Metis Issue, American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 6. No. 2, American Indian Studies Center, Los Angeles, 1982.

The Native Link, Tracing One's Roots to the Fur Trade, R. Leslie Taylor, Pencrest Publications, Victoria BC, 1984.

Native Peoples and Canadian Society: A Profile of Issues and Trends, Victor F. Valentine, in Cultural Boundaries and the Cohesion of Canada, Raymond Breton, Jeffrey G. Reitz, Victor Valentine, The Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montreal, 1980.

The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America, (Eds) Peterson, Jacqueline, and Brown, Jennifer, S.H., The University of Manitoba Press, 1985.

Ontario Metis and non-Status Indian Land Claims Research, in The Forgotten People, Metis and non-status Indian Land Claims, ed/intro Harry W. Daniels, Native Council of Canada, 1979

Our Debt to the Redman, The French-Indians in the Development of the United States, The Stratford Company, Boston, 1918.

Our Footprints Are Everywhere, Inuit Land Use and Occupancy in Labrador, Labrador Inuit Association, 1977.

Our Land: The Maritimes, eds G. P Gould and A.J. Semple, The basis of the Indian Claim in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, St. Anne's Point Press, Frederiction, NB, 1980.

Our Metis Heritage...a portrayal, ed Joanne Overvold (Burger), Metis Association of the Northwest Territories, 1976.

Partners in Furs, A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay, 1600-1870, Daniel Francis and Toby Morantz, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983.

The People In Between, Indian-White Marriage and the Genesis of a Metis Society and Culture in the Great Lakes Region, 1680-1830, Jacqueline Louise Peterson, 1981.

Prelude to Red River: A Social Portrait of the Great Lakes Metis, Peterson, J. , American Society for Ethnohistory, October 1977.

The Present Day Metis, Chapter 12 in The Metis, Canada's Forgotten People, D. Bruce Sealey, Antoine S. Lussier, Manitoba Metis Federation Press, 1975.

Prior Claims: Aboriginal People in the Constitution of Canada, Douglas Sanders, in Canada and the New Constitution, The Unfinished Agenda, Vol. 1, Stanley M. Beck and Ivan Bernier, The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1983.

Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Ministry of supply anbd Services Canada, Ottawa, 1998.

Seaching for Your Ancestors in Canada, Eunice Ruiter Baker, Heritage House Publishers, Ottawa, 1974.

Strangers in Blood, Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country, Jennifer S. H. Brown, University of British Columbia Press, 1980.

Ted Trindell, Metis Witness to the North, Jean Morisset & Rose-Marie Pelletier, Tilicum Library & Pulp Press, Vancouver, 1987.

Treaty No. 9, The Halfbreed Question,1902-1910, Highway Bookshop, Cobalt, 1978.

We Are Metis, A Metis Perspective of the Evolution of an Indigenous Canadian People, Redbird, D., A Thesis for Master of Interdisciplinary studies, The Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, 1978.

We Are the New Nation, The Metis and National Native Policy, Harry W. Daniels, Native Council of Canada, 1979.

Women and the Fur Trade, Sylvia Van Kirk, The Beaver, Winter, 1972.
 

I am not sure how accessible the papers on Metis collected and/or commissioned by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples are, but some are listed here in hopes that some people will be interested enough to call them and find out.

All My Relations, Discussion Paper for the Metis Circle of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Martin F. Dunn, 1994. (Text now included on this site)

Do the Metis Fall Within Section 91(24 of the Constitution Act, 1867 and if so, What are the Ramifications in 1993?, Morse, Bradford W.,and Giokas, John, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1993.

The Métis and 91(24): Is Inclusion the Issue? A Research Paper prepared fopr the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Don McMahon and Fred Martin, November 1993.

Identification Process for Indigenous Peoples in Selected Countries and Options for the Registration of Métis Peoples in Canada, The Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Group, October 1993.