Homeland to Hinterland Grade Nine Ten Eleven Twelve He maintains that only when He maintains that only when Aboriginal communities are grounded in their traditional values of consensus based government will they succeed in healing the divisions It features a collaborative project produced specifically for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics that comments on the colonization of Aboriginal peoples in Canada in the 21st century Metis identity is the result of economic and social circumstances rather than biology His research concludes that the Metis adapted quickly to the changing conditions of the 1840s and in fact influenced the nature of economic change