Academic Research, Reports & Publications

Indigenous Identity Fraud

A report for the University of Saskatchewan, October 17, 2022

Jean Teillet

Report offers guidance for post-secondary efforts on Indigenous citizenship/membership verification

Distorted Descent

University of Manitoba Press (Sept. 20 2019)

Darryl Leroux

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity. 

MNO’s Recognition of Six New Historic Métis Communities

A report for the Manitoba Métis Federation, March 7, 2020

Darryl Leroux and Darren O’Toole

Most of these communities are not known to have any connection to the Métis Homeland.

Self-made Métis

With files by Max Binks-Collier Illustration by Ian Turner

Darryl Leroux

Tens of thousands of Canadians have begun calling themselves Métis, Darryl Leroux finds, and now they’re trying to get the courts to agree. 

Membership in a Métis organization or Settlement: Findings from the 2021 Census of Population

September 21, 2022

Statistics Canada

Tens of thousands of Canadians have begun calling themselves Métis, Darryl Leroux finds, and now they’re trying to get the courts to agree. 

The “Historic Abitibi-Inland Métis Community”

Final Report; September 1, 2022

Darryl Leroux

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Standing Committee Submission re: Bill C-53

November 17, 2023

Darryl Leroux

Most of these communities are not known to have any connection to the Métis Homeland.

From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl

Western Producer Prairie Books, 1990

Donald B. Smith

Archibald Stansfeld Belaney was born in 1888, in Hastings, England. On emigrating to Canada, he spent his early years as a trapper in northern Ontario and Quebec. By his mid-thirties he had become a protector of wildlife, a popular author, lecturer — and an enormously successful Indian impostor — Grey Owl.