I know very, very little of Métis Peoples - is what you’re describing like a bunch of people with no close reciprocate relationships with other Métis folks, have no documented Indigenous ancestry, that just kinda formed a club and declared themselves a Tribe??

I wish the author had expanded more in these sections:

As much as I was indigenous by blood, by mind, and by soul, I was reluctant to assert my identity openly due to lack of documentation. (How silly is that? Did our ancestors have Indian or Métis status cards? Why do we continue to allow others to define who we are as a people?) I realize now that I was retracing the paths of my ancestors, my predecessors, the Métis traders of centuries past. As my research would find, I have indigenous relatives in all these regions.

He kinda implies that he found family or at least documentation, but fails to elaborate, which honestly seems intentional to me. :/