This article seeks to better understand how practices of inclusion can contribute to enhancing the agency of minority communities, in other words their ability to fulfill their collective goals. Our historical-political analysis of the resistance movements of the Patriots in 1837 and the Métis in 1869 reveals that the establishment of alliances with other groups are factors that contributed to the advancement of their political projects. Inclusion is thus a political tool that can be mobilized by minority communities to build a broader base of power vis-à-vis the State.