Firstly I am not offended by your challenge!
And I am altruistic. My motives are selfless.
What you did was talk about me as if I were a danger to people. "Warning", "warning"! It was the way you presented the facts. You dislike they way I assume particular things about my lineage. I dislike they way you have presented yourself as the goddess of lineages by making presumptions about where my ancestors originated.....And that I cannot claim anything about them without documentation. Are you bragging about your well documented Metis affiliation?
I suspected that you had mixed blood ancestry with the name Richot.
I know now that your bias is not being Metis, but toward those that wish to join a Metis community that do not have absolute documentation.
I did not leave my first message for you. It was to another person. Either you are that person or you have received information from her or asked her for information. She has not contacted me further so, I assume, that you have influenced her in some way. Pretty awesome power you have! No matter!
As for the word "squaw", it was a French web translation of something you said, I believe, on a Quebec Metis forum. I wasn't able to retract the page. I apologize if this was offensive, but the interpretation is still the fact that you object to my maternal ancestors being called Metis without some sort of documentation.
Unless you are related to Onesime Roi and Clemence Maille, what right is it of yours to make such bold statements about our ancestry? I think you got a lot of pleasure out of informing people all over the web that they are not related to the Ontario Brisset family. How helpful! I am related to the Brissett family but indirectly by marriage.
Stating unequivocally that this couple do not have native ancestry without all the facts, especially those relating to birth in France, appears to me vindictive or maybe just a flexing of your great opinion and reputation as a genealogist.
If discouraging people from joining a Metis community for all the social and political benefits that it may provide is your objective, then, it seems, you have succeeded by at least one person in this case!
