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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 30 MRSA c. 605 is enacted to read:

 
CHAPTER 605

 
METIS RECOGNITION ACT

 
§8101.__Short title

 
This chapter is known and may be cited as "the Metis
Recognition Act."

 
§8102. Definitions

 
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.

 
1.__Distinct from other aboriginal peoples. "Distinct from
other aboriginal peoples" means distinct for cultural and
nationhood purposes.

 
2.__Historic Metis Nation.__"Historic Metis Nation" means the
aboriginal people then known as Metis who resided in the historic
Metis Nation homeland.

 
3.__Historic Metis Nation homeland.__"Historic Metis Nation
homeland" means the area of land in west central North America
used and occupied as the traditional territory of the Metis.

 
4.__Laws of the State.__"Laws of the State" means the
Constitution and all statutes, rules or regulations and the
common law of the State and its political subdivisions and
judicial interpretations thereof.

 
5.__Metis.__"Metis" means a person who self-identifies as
Metis, is of historic Metis Nation ancestry, and is accepted by
the Metis Nation or the Metis Nation in New England.

 
6.__Metis Nation.__"Metis Nation" means the people descended
from the historic Metis nation and who are included within the
definition of "aboriginal peoples of Canada" within section 35 of
the Constitution Act of 1982 of Canada.

 
§8103.__Recognition

 
The State hereby recognizes and extends State recognition to
the Metis people as a distinct category of Native Americans.

 
§8104. Laws of the State


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