Help

For starters, scroll this page using the Bar and/or Arrows on the right ---> (Any time you get stuck or lost use your Back or <--- Button to return where you came from)

The Other Métis site has become too complex to have all of its elements displayed on a single scrollable homepage. Over time it has also been possible to take some of the larger text files and break them up into smaller chapter-length files. Although these structural changes shorten the on-screen loading time of larger files, they do make link-based navigation of the site a necessity, rather than just an option. To simplify the navigation process, and to maintain accessibility for relatively low end computers, I have adopted a table-based (rather than frame-based) format. Each component of the tables (called cells) contain links to information or to other locations, or even to other Web sites.
Click on "Getting Around" in the table below and see what happens.

Clicking on one of the cells below takes you to information related to that topic.
Getting Around	If You Get Lost	Practice Table	Downloading Files
If you do click one of the cells above, you will need to use your Back or <--- button to return here.

Getting Around

Navigation is, for the time being, still relatively simple, but for those who are relatively inexperienced with link-based site navigation, a brief description of the link-protocol on this site might be helpful. If this is your first time on line, you may not know that any underlined text (usually blue) on any page you go to is a link to some other information or location. If you click anwhere on that text line (or sometimes on an image or a button) you will be transferred to whatever information or location that link is designed to connect with.

The heart of the navigation system of The Other Métis is the Index Screen, a mirror image of which is reproduced here. The links here are active and will launch you into the bowels of the site. You might want to hold off clicking on any of them until you read a little more.

Practice Table

Except for this cell, this table is a rough mirror image of the Index Table on this site. Depending on which cell you click, you may have to click on the BackArrow Screen of your browser in order to return here.
Aboriginal Links	Are You Métis?	Articles/Papers	Bibliography
Contents	Copyright	Definitions	Email Me
GuestBook	HelpScreen	Info Providers	Métis Bookstore
Labrador Métis Nation		Métis Confederacy Background
Métis Confederacy Listserve		Métis Nation in New England
Ontario Métis and Aboriginal Assoc.		Métis Nation in Québec
Métis News	Native Genealogy	Pronounce Métis	Results of National Meeting
Site Title	We Are Metis	Welcome	What's New
Return to Front Screen		Return to Contents Screen

The original Index Screen can be reached from the opening screen by clicking on the

To Index Screen

cell on the opening page. From that point on, any section of the site can be reached by clicking on the text in the appropriate cell of the Index Table. This enables you to choose the items that specifically interest you without having to scroll through items that do not interest you, or that you've already read.

Having selected an item by clicking on

Who Are The Métis?

for example, you are connected to the index of that section. Each section is also in a table format and can include up to three distinct types of links. (Try it and then click on the Help cell you find on that screen to return here)

The first type of link is contained within a given text as in:-

"I hope others will contribute to this section."

and, if clicked, takes you to information related to the text of the link.

(Try it and then see if you can find your way back here)

The second type of link is inside a table cell

Definition:A Double-Edged Bowie Knife (12 Pages - 33k)

and connects you to information related to your selection.

The third type of link enables you to leave that particular section

Next Screen

and either go back to a previous section or move on to another section on the site.

If You Get Lost

As the Other Métis has more and more materials and features added to it, it is actually possible to get lost in the maze of files. The easiest and most direct way out is simply to click on the

To Index Screen

cell wherever you find it. It will, so to speak, take you home to where you first started. This option is provided (along with others) on every table and at the top and bottom of longer text files.

The fourth type of link on the Other Métis is, of course, links found in the Other Links section which take you outside of the site altogether and connects you to other sites on the web.

Keep in mind that all of these navigation tools are in addition to the forward and backward arrows on your browser which move you forward and backward through pages or screens you have already visited.

Downloading Files

Since some of the files on The Other Métis are quite long (some over 100 printed pages) you may prefer to download those files to your own computer so they can be read off line. Smaller files can be downloaded simply by displaying them and then using the "save" or "save as" function on a browser to save them. Files can be saved in two formats: 1) as a text file (if you want read them with a word processor) or 2) as "source" or html files if you want to read them later with your web browser.

Some longer files have been broken into chapter length files on the site and these must be downloaded individually (unless you have a batch download utility). Just treat each "chapter" as a separate file. They can later be combined as a single word processing file.

Keep in mind that although the articles on The Other Métis are freely available for individual, private and non-profit use, they are ©copyrighted and cannot be reproduced in any form for commercial use, commericial promotion, or in products for sale without permission of the copyright owner.



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