#but the métis ancestors had married into ojibwe and cree households. MNO just claimed all their descendants : | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

richmondflyingsquirrels · 4 months

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btw ive decided im gonna apply for membership w the FN that MNO misclaimed my ancestors from. granny has been really excited about it. shes finally feeling connected after 70 years since she left.

#apparently most of my ancestors i believed were Métis were Ojibwe. just misclaimed.#so im cree & ojibwe w some métis ancestry #but the métis ancestors had married into ojibwe and cree households. MNO just claimed all their descendants :/#i still want to connect more w my nish heritage before applying but i have been learning some #it does make sense why so much ofthe small things granny could remember was of the oji-cree cultural overlaps #i wish i had known sooner. in law school i had been tempted to take the ojibwe lang classes bc it was the closest i could come to cree gram #but i actually. could have learned my own language and didnt even realize :(

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