{"id":73269,"date":"2025-04-14T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=73269"},"modified":"2025-04-14T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:24:17","slug":"robinson-huron-waawiindamaagewin-denounces-metis-panel-report-for-historical-inaccuracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/robinson-huron-waawiindamaagewin-denounces-metis-panel-report-for-historical-inaccuracies\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin Denounces M\u00e9tis Panel Report For Historical Inaccuracies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The newly released M\u00e9tis National Council Expert Panel is doubling down on the M\u00e9tis Nation of Ontario\u2019s efforts to revise and misrepresent the histories of our lands and ancestors, say Robinson Huron Chiefs.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAs a Nation that recognizes and honours our Treaty relationship with the federal government, the Robinson Huron Treaty (RHT) Nations unequivocally condemn and challenge every aspect of this report,\u201d said Scott McLeod, Lake Huron Regional Chief and member of the Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin political working group.\u00a0\u201cTo be clear, the M\u00e9tis were not signatories to any of the pre-Confederation Treaties, nor was a peace and friendship treaty \u2018renewed\u2019 between the Anishinabek and the MNO\/M\u00e9tis in 2015, as the report erroneously argues. To suggest otherwise not only misrepresents history \u2014 it undermines the spirit and intent of the Treaties themselves, and the original Nation-to-Nation relationship they represent.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Oral history, along with our continuous, in-depth research and teachings on Treaty, make this clear: the original Treaties on this land were made between the Anishinaabe and the Crown. The so-called M\u00e9tis represented today by the MNO were not a Treaty partner in any of these agreements. The MNO\u2019s claim to represent seven distinct M\u00e9tis communities in Ontario does not meet the legal or historical requirements necessary to demonstrate continuous occupation, governance, and sovereignty over our territories prior to Treaty-making.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe Anishinaabe have demonstrated, through our existence long before colonization, that we held \u2014 and continue to hold \u2014 the governance systems and inherent authority to enter into Treaty. The MNO simply doesn\u2019t represent a distinct M\u00e9tis people, otherwise we would have developed political and diplomatic relations with them,\u201d said Chief McLeod. \u201cWhat is happening before our eyes is a bold attempt at rewriting the past and deflecting our calls for truth and accountability. Make no mistake, the MNO is robbing our graves to justify claims to our lands. This is settler colonialism 2.0.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Notably, the Manitoba M\u00e9tis Federation, the M\u00e9tis Nation-Saskatchewan, the M\u00e9tis Nation of British Columbia, and the Chiefs of Ontario all agree with our assessment that the Expert Panel report represents a flagrant effort to rewrite history in favour of the MNO. RHW will continue to oppose the MNO as long as it asserts authority over our territories.<\/div>\n
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About Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin<\/b><\/div>\n
Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin is an initiative undertaken by the 21 First Nations of the Robinson Huron Treaty to create a Treaty-level body capable of addressing many issues that have, until now, been addressed within Canadian government-created agencies and systems of governance. The goal is to develop a collective Anishinaabe decision-making body that advances our people’s interests and inherent rights. We recognize that the Treaty helps protect our inherent rights and can build on the strength of this collective to enhance and foster health and wellness for our people.<\/div>\n
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RHW also conducts treaty-based research, facilitates community engagement in Robinson Huron Treaty communities on treaty-related matters, and develops treaty education tools, including detailed use and occupancy research of the treaty area.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newly released M\u00e9tis National Council Expert Panel is doubling down on the M\u00e9tis Nation of Ontario\u2019s efforts to revise and misrepresent the histories of our lands and ancestors, say Robinson Huron Chiefs. \u201cAs a Nation that recognizes and honours our Treaty relationship with the federal government, the Robinson Huron Treaty (RHT) Nations unequivocally condemn …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indigenous"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 15:30:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73270,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73269\/revisions\/73270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}