Root Ancestor definition
Root Ancestor or “Métis Root Ancestor” means an individual who is a Documented Métis living in the Identified Métis Community, or the sibling of a Documented Métis living in the Identified Métis Community; and is ancestrally connected to an Identified Historic Métis Community through their Forebearers, siblings, or themselves living in the community prior to Effective Control (the period of time when the Crown likely effected on the ground legal and political control), and included in a VMFL. For greater certainty, an individual who may be the descendent of a European man and a First Nations woman (i.e., a mixed Aboriginal ancestry individual), without meeting the criteria set out above and being a part of a VMFL, is not a Métis Root Ancestor for the purposes of the Policy.