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I never found more than one or two familial objections. The anxiety doesn’t exist as much anymore. For some people, being Métis is still a secret, families don’t recognise; however, it isn’t like it was in the 1950s and 60s when I grew up. Since the 1980’s things have shifted dramatically because finally the Métis were recognised in the Canadian Constitution, Section 35. We are now becoming slowly included when land acknowledgements are given, but the Métis need to be recognised by First Nations and Inuit and vice versa. If the Métis are Indigenous, then we must be acknowledged and treated as others are treated. Women really liked, men too, but particularly women liked the poem ‘Leather and Naughahyde’ because of how the poem addresses how casually someone’s identity is brushed aside