New grant program available to regional Métis entrepreneurs – SooToday.com

Eligible business owners can apply for up to $2,000 in funding from the Culture-Based Métis Business Grants program until April 30

The Huron-Superior Regional Métis Community (MNO Region 4) has launched the news Culture-Based Métis Business Grants program which aims to support regional Métis entrepreneurs in starting or growing their own culture-based business.

Eligible Métis citizens can apply for up to $2,000 in funding until April 30. Grants will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.

Full text of a news release issued by the Huron-Superior Regional Métis Community follows:

In 1860, a newspaper account remarked on the easily distinguishable Métis of the upper Great Lakes, who were “rather fancifully dressed, having their caps and clothing ornamented with beads.” Many others described the distinct Métis way of life that blended hunting, fishing, farming, trapping, various forms of paid employment and making “considerable quantities of maple sugar” every spring.

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