Native American Ceremonies are a very special and spiritual thing. At no time should you ever be changed for a ceremony of any kind. Reputable Medicine Elders will never change, they may ask for a donation of whatever you feel is right. These may include gas money or help for the cost of the firewood or the like. But no one should ever be turned away because they do not have money to pay.

The United Metis Tribe has a few members that have earned the right to preform some ceremonies. At no time will they ever change for them. If you are ever charged by a member of the United Metis Tribe and the Tribal Council will deal with the individual.

The United Métis Tribe! Tribal Portal is now online.

The Métis are descendants of marriages of Cree, Inuit, Ojibwe, and other indigenous peoples to Europeans and other ethnicities from around the world, and are one of three officially-recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada, the other two being the First Nations and Inuit. Their homeland consists of the Canadian provinces and also includes parts of the northern United States.

Their history dates to the mid-seventeenth century. The Métis spoke or still speak either Métis French, Anishnabe or a mixed language called Michif. Michif is a phonetic spelling of the Métis pronunciation of Métif, a variant of Métis. The Métis today predominantly speak English, with French a strong second language, as well as numerous Aboriginal tongues. Métis French is best preserved in Canada, Michif in the United States, notably in the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation of North Dakota, where Michif is the official language of the Métis that reside on this Chippewa reservation. The encouragement and use of Métis French and Michif is growing due to outreach within the provincial Métis councils after at least a generation of decline. The United Métis are primarily located in the Ohio Valley area.

The word Métis (the singular, plural and adjectival forms are the same) is French, and a cognate of the Spanish word mestizo. It carries the same connotation of "mixed race"; traced back far enough it stems from the Latin word mixtus, the past participle of the verb "to mix".

Over time, countless Métis are thought to have been absorbed and assimilated into the surrounding populations making Métis heritage (and thereby aboriginal ancestry) more common than sometimes realized.