Chartrand, Paul L. A. H. Aboriginal Rights: The Dispossession of the Métis

Document Type: Journal Articles (2)
Date of Document(s): 1991
Date Range Start : 1800
Date Range End: 1850
Indexing Progress: Relationship Indexed
Primary or Secondary Source: Secondary Source
Author: Chartrand, Paul L. A. H.
Title: Aboriginal Rights: The Dispossession of the Métis
Journal Title: From Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Reprint Date: 1997
Date of Publication: 1991
Date of Copyright: c1991
Volume ID: 29
Issue ID: 3
Location in Work: 457-482
Notes: paper and electronic copy / Journal Article
Abstract: Section 31 of the Manitoba Act, 1870 provided for a land settlement scheme for the benefit of the families of the Métis residents, towards the extinguishment of the Indian title. There are now now Métis reserves in Manitoba; section 31 was implemented in a way which permitted the quick dispossession of the Métis in the nineteenth century. The writer argues that the mode of implementing section 31 was a breach of constitutional obligation. Reference is made to the subsequent history of the western Métis and comments are offered regarding the current significance of the Métis dispossession.

Patronyms

Places

  • Batoche
  • Fort Garry (Winnipeg)
  • Green Lake
  • Manitoba
  • Red River Settlement
  • Saskatchewan River

Subjects

  • Aboriginal
  • Buffalo Hunt
  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • Catholic Church
  • Colonial Government
  • Colonial Policy
  • Constitution Act, 1982
  • Dumont, Gabriel
  • Enfranchisement
  • Federal Government
  • HBC (Hudson's Bay Company)
  • Indian Act
  • Land Rights
  • Land Use
  • Law
  • Macdonald, Sir John A.
  • Manitoba Act
  • Metis Nation
  • Metis Rights
  • Metis Settlement
  • MMF (Manitoba Metis Federation)
  • Northwest Territories
  • Politics
  • Provincial Government
  • RCAP (Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples)
  • Red River
  • Red River Resistance (1869)
  • Riel, Louis
  • Scrip
  • Settlements