List of Métis people

This is a partial list of Canadians who are of Métis descent.

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Prominent Métis[edit]

Louis Riel. c.1884

Howard Adams, Métis activist, author and leader
Pierre Bottineau, Minnesota frontiersman, surveyor, diplomat and translator
Michel "Mitch" Bouyer, Métis of French Canadian and Sioux ancestry; interpreter and guide in the Old West; lead scout with the US Seventh Cavalry; died along with Lt.Col. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876
James P. Brady, Métis politician and activist
Harry Daniels, Métis politician and activist^[1]
Pierre Delorme, Métis politician and activist
Gabriel Dumont, Métis military leader during the North-West Rebellion
Cuthbert Grant, Métis political and military leader
John Norquay, Métis politician, Premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887
Malcolm Norris, Métis politician and activist
Louis Riel, Métis leader who led the Red River Rebellion in 1869 - 1870, the provisional government of Rupert's Land, Manitoba's entry into Confederation in 1870; later led the North-West Rebellion in 1885^[2]

George R. D. Goulet, 2007 (shown carrying the Métis flag) and leading the Grand Entry at the Red River West celebration

Sandra Birdsell, daughter of a Métis man and a Russian Mennonite woman; based her award-winning novel Children of the Day in part on her parents' experiences in Manitoba in the 1920s to 1950s
Joseph Boyden, award-winning Canadian author with Irish, Scottish and Métis roots; won the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his second novel, Through Black Spruce
Robert Boyer (1948–2004); Métis Cree artist, best known for his politically charged "Blanket Statements" series of paintings^[3]
Alec Butler^[4]
Maria Campbell, Métis writer and filmmaker; born in northern Saskatchewan in 1940; brought the struggles of modern-day Métis and Aboriginal people to the public through her breakthrough book, Halfbreed (1973), and the collaborative play, Jessica (1982); captured the sound and song of traditional stories through her work in dialect, Stories of the Road Allowance People (1996)^[5]
George R. D. Goulet, best-selling Métis author; books include The Trial of Louis Riel: Justice and Mercy Denied, The Metis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities, and The Métis in British Columbia: From Fur Trade Outposts to Colony
Dylan Miner, Métis printmaker, writer and conceptual artist^[6]
Rick Rivet (born 1949), painter
Tiffany Shaw-Collinge (born 1982), architect and artist
Katherena Vermette, writer
Christine Welsh, documentary filmmaker and academic

Rod Bruinooge, Métis; Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South (Conservative Party of Canada); Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs & Northern Development; Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians from 2005 until the fall of 2008
Todd Ducharme, Métis; appointed as a judge in 2004 of the Ontario Supreme Court of Justice
Shelly Glover, Métis; Member of Parliament for Saint-Boniface (Conservative Party of Canada); Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages
Carole James, former British Columbia New Democratic Party leader; of partial Métis ancestry
Colleen Klein, wife of former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein; of Métis ancestry
Derrick O'Keefe, Rabble.ca editor; Canadian anti-war movement leader; of partial Métis ancestry, and has Métis membership

Sharon Bruneau, a Canadian champion bodybuilder

^ http://www.newfederation.org/Native_Leaders/Bios/Daniels.htm
^ Reasonable doubts may be raised about whether either of these events was a rebellion. For example, the actions considered rebellious in 1869 were undertaken by Riel as the leader of a government recognized by Canada as in legitimate control of territory that did not belong to Canada; Canada negotiated the Manitoba Act with this government. After these "rebellions", land speculators and other non-Métis effectively deprived the Métis of land by exploiting a government program for its purchase, with the government perhaps turning a blind eye. The province of Alberta distributed land to Métis in 1938 to correct what it believed to be an inequity, but Saskatchewan and Manitoba have not followed Alberta's lead.
^ Jacoby-Smith, Jennifer. "The Painterly Life of Bob Boyer." University of Saskatchewan: Green and White. Winter 2005 (retrieved 23 November 2009)
^ Gloria Kim, "Why be just one sex?".
^ Maclean's, September 8, 2005.
^ "Membership." Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. (retrieved 13 February 2010)