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(Front row: left-right) Brian Kon, Niki Ann Brideau, Laura Burey, Giselle Legiehn (Back row: left-right) Reg Bernier, Garry Laframboise, Derrick Pont, Pierre Carre. Click here for larger picture. On March 18-19, 2017, The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Niagara Region Métis Council (NRMC) participated in a Governance and Finance Training session in Fort Erie. Training

MNO and MNBC contingents at the National War Memorial following the National ceremeny to remeber the Battle of Vimy Ridge. (Front:left-right) Brittney Bertrand, veteran Eldon Clairmont, Lissa Smith MNBC Vice President and MNBC Veteran Minister, Jessica Curry, veteran Todd Ross, Veteran Robert Desjardins, PCMNO Post-Secondary Representative Katelyn LaCroix, veteran Shelly ClausMNO Veterans’ Council Women’s Representative,

MNO citizen Kate Piereder (left) receiving the 2016/2017 Aboriginal Award presented by ConestogaCollege Aboriginal Services Manager MyeengunHenry (right). Click here for larger picture. On February 18, 2017, Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) citizen Kate Piereder, was presented the 2016/2017 Aboriginal Award for achievement at the Seventh Annual Pow Wow at Conestoga College. Kate is a

MNO PDWMC President Andy Dufrane (centre)with Mary Lynch-Taylor (left), Trustee; and Jack Nigro (right), Superintendent; both with theKawartha Pine District School Board. Click herefor larger picture. The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Peterborough and District Wapiti Métis Council (PDWMC) hosted a Friendship Feast at the Holiday Inn in Peterborough on Friday, March 24, 2017. The

(Front row: left-right) MNO Region 9 PCMNO Councilor Peter Rivers, CS Wind Project ManagerSK Yoon and MNO Clear Waters Métis Council President Jerry Clarke. (Back row: left-right) MNOGrand River Métis Council (GRMC) Senator CarolLévis, MNO Windsor-Essex Métis Council (WEMC) President Donna Grayer, MNO Niagara Region Métis Council (NRMC) President Derrick Pont, MNO GRMC Treasurer Leslie

Scenes from the Thunder Bay Spring Festival (top:letf-right) Commissioner on the MNO Commissionon Métis Rights and Self-Government Paul Robitaille, MNO Thunder Bay Métis Council President Jean Camirand and Spring Festival Organizer Madeline Denhardt (bottom) Festivalparticipants creating beadwork and playing atraditional Métis game. (Pictures by David Harel)Click here for larger picture. On March 18, 2017, over

The Métis Nation of Ontario(MNO) has developed a Métis youth survey to provide a deeper understanding of Métis community youth needs in Ontario related to high school completion, post-secondary education and transition to employment. This will enable the MNO to develop and/or enhance programs that the community deems important. Please note that you do not

All Métis youth are invited to send in photos of their beadwork, to be entered into a draw for bead supplies. Métis have long been known for our beautiful floral beadwork, so much so that we were known by the Lakota people as “the flower beadwork people.” For so long, Métis communities in Ontario were

Members of the MNO WEMC who worked with the Chumzuk Museum (left-right) MNO Veterans’Council Women’s Representative Shelly Claus,Senator Jim Turner, Women’s RepresentativeSharlene Lance, President Donna Grayer and Morgan Baillergeon. Click here for larger picture. The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Windsor-Essex Métis Council (WEMC) worked with the Chumzuk Museum in Windsor to develop a small

MNO Historic Sault Ste. Marie Dance Club studentsperforming at the Bon Soo Festival. Click here forlarger picture. On February 20, 2017, The Métis Dance Club of the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Historic Sault Ste. Marie Métis Council (HSSMC) performed to a packed audience at The Machine Shop in Sault Ste. Marie. The performance was