NON-STATUS MÉTIS FLAG
© 2007 all rights reserved Simon Kjika'qawej
Côté and Anne Côté
(STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT -- PLEASE LINK TO THIS PAGE)
The red infinity or figure-eight symbol on this flag symbolises the Red Road, the traditional ways of the Mothers of the Métis Nation, as followed by North American Métis people outside the homeland. Non-status Métis are people who do not live in the traditional homelands of the provinces now known as Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia in "Canada". The green background symbolises the great forests and grass lands and our love for them, as well as our desire for the restoration of the life-sustaining eco-systems of the North American continent and a halt to the destruction and scorched earth policies called "progress" and "development".
Métis (pronounced May-tee) people of "Canada" do not
have status since 27 September 2002 if they do not meet certain conditions
[Read more here].
The conditions for using this flag design:
A person should
• have ancestral ties to the Métis Nation people in the Red
River Valley during the so-called rebellion ("Historic Métis
National Homeland") and/or familial ties to Métis people who
still live in the Métis Nation homeland;
• be living outside the Métis Nation homeland now known as the
provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia
of "Canada";
• not use the flag for any commercial or mercantile use without
license from the flag designers Simon Kjika'qawej and Anne
Cóté.
The mothers of the Métis Nation people were Ojibway, Cree, and Sauteux. Outside the homeland, it's all about our mothers who are Original people. Within the homeland, one should be accepted by the Métis Nation before claiming to be Métis. If a person is Métis living in the traditional homeland, they would have no need to use this flag.
Be wary of those who claim to be Métis living in the homeland who have no ties to Historic Métis Nation people and are not active in or known to the Métis Nation community in their region. Recently displaced Québeçois, Franco-Ontarians, Franco-Albertans, and Franco Canadians of other provinces are not Métis peoples.
The flag was designed prior to 2002 by Simon Kjika'qawej Côté aka Simon Raven (formerly known as Eric S. Côté) and his wife Anne Côté circa 1998, after they had left the Historic Métis Nation homeland which was shortly before the Spring 1997 Winnipeg flood. It was used briefly in an attempt to reach out to family and other people in a similar situation and form a community , people who by 2002 had become Non-Status Métis. Simon Kjika'qawej Côté has familial and community ties to the Métis Nation in the homeland and ancestral ties to the Historic Métis Nation people of the Red River valley (in what is now known as "Winnipeg"), but he no longer self-identifies as Métis.
Outside the homeland, the Red Road flag is all about the Mothers, the female ancestresses, who were Ojibway, Cree, and Sauteaux. It was designed for the people who became Non-status Métis in "Canada" as of 2002.
To license use of the flag design, email Simon Raven.
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