Take a look at the below document by highly respected Métis Historian Lawrence J. Barkwell. He compiled this in 2016 which is about 2 years before the Métis National Council published the Métis Homeland (Blue Blob) map.
The Métis Homeland: Its Settlements and Communities, L. Barkwell
Barkwell was the senior historian with Manitoba Métis Federation’s Louis Riel Institute from 2006 until his death in 2019. This document and much of the research on the communities outside the Blue Blob map seems to have disappeared on the Louis Riel Institutes (LRI) website but it can still be found on the Gabriel Dumont Institutes website along with many other interesting collections. Why would this valuable information disappear from the LRI website? Is it because it did not support a specific agenda?
This document is a great read but of note are many Métis communities listed that don’t support the MNC’s Métis Homeland map.
-Cahokia, Missouri, pg 31
-Chicago: Historic Métis Settlement, pg 35
-Côte Sans Dessein, pg 39
-Drummond Island and St. Joseph’s Island, pg 50
-Fort Kaskaskia, Illinois, pg 70
-Fort Kamloops, B.C., pg 70
-Fort Kilmaurs, Fort Babine, B.C., pg 71
-Fort Langley, British Columbia, pg 76
-Fort Michilimackinac, pg 78
-Fort Nanaimo, British Columbia, pg 83
-Fort Nisqually, Puget Sound, Washington, pg 83
-Fort Saint James, British Columbia, pg 89
-Fort Victoria, British Columbia, pg 94
-French Prairie, Oregon Territory, pg 95
-Green Bay, Wisconsin, pg 104
-Island Cache, British Columbia, pg 111
-Juneau, Alaska, pg 113
-Kaskaskia, pg 113
-Kawsmouth (Kansas City), pg 113
-Kootenae House, British Columbia, pg 115
-Moose Factory, Ontario, pg 136
-Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, pg 154
-Puget Sound, Oregon Territory, pg 155
-Saugeen, ON, pg 179
-Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, pg 180
-St. Louis, Missouri, pg 188
-St. Mary’s River, Michigan, pg 190
-St. Paul, Minnesota, pg 191
-Tête Jaune Cache, BC, pg 196
-USA – Early Métis Settlements, pg 201
