In what year did the earliest of the Metis organizations come together in Batoche to petition for property damage claims after the 1885 Resistance?
What is 1887?
100
This process is cited as the primary reason why provincial governments refused to recognize any "supposed right" of the Metis to land claims.
What is scrip?
100
In 1939, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized this group of people as "Indians" and thus under federal jurisdiction.
What are the Inuit?
100
What is one of the earliest examples of a Native organization lobbying the governments of the day for better social conditions for their people?
What is the Metis Association of Alberta?
100
This group of educated Metis took on leadership roles and educated other Metis about their historical origins soon after funding of Native organizations by the federal government was implemented.
What is the Metis intelligentsia?
200
One of the first tasks that this group undertook was to have a monument erected on Riel's tomb in 1891
What is the L'Union Nationale Metis Saint Josephe du Manitoba?
200
These lands were originally set aside for Metis people as a solution to the plight of the Metis people in Alberta.
What are Metis settlements?
200
This strategy has been employed by the federal government for a century, or more, to ensure that the Metis are not given their inherent Aboriginal rights.
What is non-recognition of Metis rights?
200
This organization included both the Metis people and non-status Indians early on but later found their differences in objectives to be problematic in the political realm.
What is the Native Council of Canada?
200
The Metis asserted that this type of claim underlaid their quest for recognition of Metis rights.
What is a 'specific' claim?
300
The name of a publication written in 1936 by Tremaudan after decades of research and interviews with the Metis of Red River and Batoche
What is Histoire de la Nation Metisse dans l'Ouest Canadien?
300
This group originally lobbied the Saskatchewan government in 1937 for assistance in its "constitutional claims" against the Government of Canada.
What is the Saskatchewan Metis Society?
300
This federal leader believed that the Metis were to be seen as a "disadvantaged minority group" rather than one of the founding nations of Canada.
Who is (former) Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau?
300
This national leader decried, "The Metis fact, not the Francophone or Anglophone, represents the true basis of Canadian culture"
Who is Harry Daniels?
300
This was the basis for the initial forming of the Provisional Government in 1869 by Louis Riel, and later formed the basis for the efforts of a group in Cranberry Portage.
What is 'international law'?
400
The solution that was preferred by the prairie provincial governments in the 1930s over that of recognition of existing Aboriginal rights
What are relief measures?
400
This group formed in 1967 to unite the Metis of two provincial regions within the "Metis Homeland" thus fostering a sense of Metis nationhood.
What is the Manitoba Metis Federation?
400
This policy paper touted a vision of a "bilingual, multicultural country" with access to equality of opportunity for all and no special status afforded to any group.
What is the "White Paper"?
400
These three groups were formed in 1970 to nationally represent the constitutionally recognized Aboriginal people of Canada
Who are the National Indian Brotherhood, the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, and the Native Council of Canada?
400
This former Minister was asked by Daniels if there was specific reference to the Metis in the first version of the 1981 constitutional amendment to which he replied No.
Who is Jean Chretien?
500
After years of lobbying and pressure on the Alberta Government by the Metis, this Act was implemented to address the dire social and economic conditions of the indigent Metis.
What is the Metis Population Betterment Act?
500
This strategy was used on both the Metis people of Alberta (on and off settlement) as well as the Saskatchewan Metis to ensure that there was in-fighting amongst the Metis.
What is the "divide and conquer" strategy?
500
For many years, the federal government saw these two groups as "Aboriginal minorities with special problems rather than special rights"
Who are the Metis and the non-status Indians?
500
This commission was set up in 1981 to investigate the investigate the Metis peoples' reactions to the terms of patriation of the Canadian Constitution as it pertained to those Aboriginal people without treaty rights.
What is the "Metis and Non-Status Indians Constitutional Review Commission"?
500
This provincial premier was one of the most supportive politicians in dropping the Aboriginal rights provision during the 1981 November crisis in a "solidarity of silence" stance.