METIS SETTLEMENTS OF CONSULTATION CONTACTS

Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement Gift Lake Metis Settlement Consultation Contact: Consultation Contact: Cheryl Gordon Ryan McLeod Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Office: 780-689-2170 Office: 780-767-3794 Fax: 780-689-2024 Cell: 587-283-0644T9M 1P1 P.O. Box 16, PO Box 60 Caslan, AB. T0A 0R0 Gift Lake, AB. T0G 1B0 GOVERNMENT OF East Prairie Metis Settlement Kikino Metis Settlement Consultation Contact: Consultation Contact: Caitlyn Supernault Shelby Merchant Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Office: 780-523-2594 Office:780-623-7868 PO Box 1289 Cell: 780-404-4581 High Prairie, AB. T0G 1E0 CONSULTATIONS Fax: 780-623-7080 General Delivery Elizabeth Metis Settlement Kikino, AB. T0A 2B0 Consultation Contact: WITH METIS Anne Turbide Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement Email: [email protected] Consultation Contact: Office: 780-594-5026 Justin Gaudet SETTLEMENTS Cell: 780-812-5257 Email: [email protected] PO Box 420 Office: 780-981-2227 Head Office: Cold Lake, AB. T9M 1P1 Cell: 780-296-1504 Suite 101, 10335 172 Street NW OUR LAND P.O. Box 58 , AB T5S 1K9 Fishing Lake Metis Settlement Paddle Prairie, AB. T0H 2W0 Ph: 780-822-4096 OUR CULTURE Consultation Contact: Toll Free: 1-888-213-4400 Stacey LaBoucane OUR FUTURE Email: Consultation Contact: [email protected] Mark Sinclair Central Consultation Coordinator: Office: 780-943-2202 ext. 260 Email: [email protected] Erin McGregor Office: 780-523-3991 Cell: 780-646-0581 Ph: 780-822-4061 General Delivery Bag #4 Sputinow, AB. T0A 3G0 High Prairie, AB. T0G 1E0 email: [email protected] The federal government must consult with our WHAT IS CONSULTATION? communities if our Metis rights may be The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has said that the impacted by federal government decisions. Crown has a “Duty to Consult” with communities whose Gathering, compiling and documenting rights may be impacted by Crown decisions. This means information, like traditional land use studies, is that when the Government of Canada makes decisions important for the consultation process and can about Crown Lands, and these decisions have the potential only be done through the assistance and to negatively impact Metis Settlement members’ ability to support of settlement members. continue exercising their rights to hunt, fish, trap, gather and carry out their traditional land uses, the Crown must first consult with the settlements to try to minimize or WHAT IS TRADITIONAL avoid the impacts. LAND USE STUDY (TLUS)? WHAT KIND OF PROJECTS DOES It is the story of life on the land that communicates the history, current use and THE GOVERNMENT CONSULT ON? occupancy of a territory and the resources The Government of Canada is responsible for decision- drawn from that territory. making about the following kinds of activities: • Inter-provincial pipelines • Nuclear power projects WHY SHOULD WE DO TRADITIONAL • Disposal of or modification to federal Crown LAND USE STUDIES (TLUS)? Lands (i.e. military, parks etc.) It will enable our settlements to be more involved in Government • Creation or modification of national parks decision-making concerning Crown land and resource management on • Decisions affecting navigable waters our traditional lands. • Environmental assessments (federal) • Other decisions made under federal legislation or Studies are conducted to support: regulations that may adversely impact Aboriginal OTHER USES FOR TRADITIONAL rights. • Identified traditional cultural practices. • Sustaining the culture and identity of the community. LAND USE STUDIES (TLUS) The Government of Canada also consults or engages with • Documentation of oral history before further knowledge is lost. indigenous communities when they are considering making • Determination of shared areas of traditional use among Good quality data can also be used to support other projects and goals in the changes to legislation, regulations or policy that might communities. following areas: negatively impact the community's ability to continue • Developing baseline data so that changes to the land and practicing their rights and culture on Crown Land. environment, as a result of resource development, can be • Protecting Metis rights measured. o Enables the Alberta Metis Settlements to assert and protect For decades our Metis Settlements have had our history • Improving industry’s awareness of the impacts development can Indigenous rights under Section 35 of the Constitution Act (1982) and practices passed down from generation to generation have on traditional uses. o To protect the rights of individual members who practice traditional through oral tradition. Our communities live close to the • Creation of historical evidence to support claims, land-use (e.g. hunting, fish trapping, and gathering) on our traditional land and have immense knowledge of the landscape and compensation processes, negotiations and participation in lands. the traditions that help make up our culture. This resource management. knowledge relates to both individual and collective • Claim Settlements. • Land Management relationships to the land and the resources. If we fail to • Asserting harvesting rights. o Help support environmental monitoring document our traditions, they will be lost. We must strive • Protection of specific traditional land use sites (e.g. berry o Help in Land Management area of important traditional use and to document our history and tradition to better support patches). occupancy our leadership on the process of consultation and • Consultation on development projects (e.g. Pipelines). o Provide evidence and support for claiming indigenous rights in accommodation. • Opportunities for capacity development, which supports self- hunting fishing land claims and other traditional Pursuits. reliance. For more information about consultation, please contact your settlement Council or Consultation Coordinator.