{"id":2,"date":"2013-02-11T18:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsrn.ualberta.ca\/rcmr-kias\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2013-04-17T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T22:21:09","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About RCMR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rupertsland Centre for M\u00e9tis Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part of the mandate of the Rupertsland Centre for M\u00e9tis Research includes building the capacity to conduct systematic research and critical analysis of the impacts of general government policies on M\u00e9tis communities. The RCMR has built into its architecture a \u201cthink tank\u201d emphasis, which will allow it to tackle questions important to M\u00e9tis society in a scholarly, non-partisan way. One element of this \u201cthink tank\u201d is the creation of a \u201crapid response\u201d website through which we can talk to M\u00e9tis experts and experts on various M\u00e9tis issues as they are happening. Several important M\u00e9tis rights issues have come before the Canadian courts recently \u2013 among the most long-anticipated is the Manitoba M\u00e9tis Federation case against the Canadian government for the loss of their lands under sections 31 and 32 of the Manitoba Act of 1870.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)<\/strong><br \/>\nwww.kias.ualberta.ca<\/p>\n<p>KIAS is an endowed research institute based at the University of Alberta. KIAS facilitates transformational interdisciplinary research at the highest level nationally and internationally. We\u2019re excited to be working with the Rupertsland Centre for M\u00e9tis Research on this rapid response web page on M\u00e9tis in the Courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupertsland Centre for M\u00e9tis Research Part of the mandate of the Rupertsland Centre for M\u00e9tis Research includes building the capacity to conduct systematic research and critical analysis of the impacts of general government policies on M\u00e9tis communities. The RCMR has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/?page_id=2\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About RCMR<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metisinthecourts.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}