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Metis under Section 35

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  • 1869-1870

    Resulted in the Manitoba Act, passsed by Canada;s parliament. The act establsihed Manitoba as a billingual province, with education rights for Catholics and Pretestants, and Metis land rights. inherent rights- rights wiht origins in fundamental justice
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    Metis under section 35

  • 1875-1879

    Canada's government issued scrip to the Metis, instead of establishing Metis lands in Manitoba. It some cases it offered Metis a chouce to accept scrip or become Treaty indians under a numbered treaty. Canada thought that the Metis do not have the same rights to land and First Nations. Scrip- in Metis history, a document that could be exchanged for land and that was offered to the Metis at the time the Numbered Treaties were negotiated.

  • 1885

    Northwest Resistnace sought ot pretect Metis lands in what today is Saskatchewan, as the railway and settlers moved into western Canada. Canadahad different interpretations of this event than Metis. For the Metis it was a way to assert their rights, like the red River Resistnace. For the others it was an attempt to overthrow Canada's authority.

  • 1896-1910

    Metis settlers established farms at St. Paul des Metis, on land provided by Catholic Church. The Metis did not have title to this land, but had to leave when the settlement was closed.

  • 1938

    Alberta's government passed the Metis PopulationBetterment Act in 1938, which established 12 temporary Metis settlements. This was the first time in history that Canada's government had provided the Metis with land.

  • 1940-1960

    The temporary settlements did not give the metis control of the land. When four of the settlements proved insuitable for farming, hunting or fishing, the settlements were closed and the ladn went back to the government of Alberta.

  • 1982

    The Meits lobbied for recognition of Metis rights in Canada's constitution. When the constitution was patriated, it included section 35 which recognizes the Metis as on of Canada's aboriginal poeples wiht rihgts.

  • 1990

    Alberta's gvernment enacted legislation inder which the Metis recieved the Metis settlements as a permanent land pase with the right to manage their own affairs. It included:
    -constitution of Alberta Amendment Act
    -Metis Settlements Accord Implementation Act
    -Metis Settlements Act
    -Metis Settlements land protection Act Antonomy: authority to make decisions

  • 2003

    the Supreme Court riled that the Metis have the right to hint and fish, as one of Canada's Aboriginal peoples under the constitution. The rights recognized the unique realationshipto the land of the Metis.

  • 2004

    There was two negotiations, the Metis Settlements General Council and the Metis Nation of Alberta struck agreements with the Albeta's governments for Metis hunting and fishing rights. They would not need license to do this activities.

  • 2006

    In April, the Metis in Manitoba launched a court case seeking compensation for land promised, but not delivered, in the Manitoba Act.