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Red River Resistance
The Metis-Led Red River Resistance resulted in the Manitoba act, passed by Canada's parliment. The act established Manitoba as a bilingual province. The act specified that Metis wuld recieve more than 500 000 hectares of land in addition to the farms they had established along the river -
Scip's
Canadas goverment issued scrips to the metis, instead of establishing Metis land in manitoba. In some cases, it offered the metis a choice: to accept the scripts from the govorment or become "Treaty Indians" under a numbered treaty. -
The North west Resistance
The North west resistance wanted to protect Metis lands in today Sasketchewan. For many Metis it was a way to assert therir rights, like the Red River Resistance. For others including Canada's goverment at the time. It was seen as an attempt to overthrow Canadian govement -
Metis Population Betterment Act
The Metis Population act which was establised in 1938 was the first time in Canada's history when the goverment that provided the Metis with land -
Metis Settlments
The temporary Metis settlments didn't give Metis full control of their land. When four of the settlments were deemed unfit fo farming, hunting and fishing. The settements were closed and the land went back to the government of Alberta -
Recognizing Metis Rights
The Metis lobbied for recognision of Metis rights in Canada's constitution. This constitution included section 35. Which stated that Metis are one of Canada's Aboriginal people with rights under the charter. -
Permanet Land for Metis
Alberta enacted a legislation which stated that the Metis would.
1. Costitution of Alberta's Amendment Act
2. Metis Settlements Accord Implemation Act
3. Metis Settlement Act
4. Metis Settlement Land protection Act
In addition, and agreement was found that made it so Metis had the right to participate in development of oil and gas resources on settlement land -
Metis Go to Supreme Court
The supreme court ruled that the Metis have the right to hunt and fish, as one of canada's Aboriginal peoples under the constitution. These rights recieved the unique relationship to the land of Metis, -
Negotiations
In two seprerate negotiations. The Metis settlements Governor Council and Metis nation struck and agreement with Alberta's government stating that the Metis had the right to hunt and fish on their lands without a licence -
Section 25
The Metis have used section 35 as a way to gain land for their people oj which they could hunt and fish without the need for licence.
Section 35 states: Only by entrenching the treatys in the constiution, is the true way to trully fulfill the sacred obligations handed down by generation of first nations