Chapter 4: Affirming Collective Rights: Metis

Question 1

Inherent Rights

Answer 1

• Rights with origins in fundamental justice

Question 2

Manitoba Act

Answer 2

• Made after the Red River River Resistance
• Established Manitoba as a bilingual province
• Gave education rights to Protestants and Catholics
• Gave land to the Metis

Question 3

Script

Answer 3

• Document that could be exchanged for land
• Offered to the Metis
• Metis could either accept the script or become “treaty Indians”

Question 4

Metis Population Betterment Act

Answer 4

• Established 12 temporary Metis settlements
• These settlements were unsuitable for hunting and fishing and were soon returned to the Canadian government 1938

Question 5

Autonomy

Answer 5

• Authority to make decisions

Question 6

1990 Land Legislation Act

Answer 6

• The Metis signed legislation with the government and received Metis settlements as a permanent land base and the right to manage their affairs
• They could also use their oil and gas resources on their settlements

1990

Question 7

2003 Metis Supreme Court Case

Answer 7

• Supreme court ruled that Metis have the right to hunt and fish as Aboriginal people under the constitution

2003

Question 8

Metis Constitution Act

Answer 8

• The existing Aboriginal and treaty rights of the Aboriginal people have been recognized and affirmed

1982