Keywords
Métis--Legal status, laws, etc.; Manitoba
Document Type
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 no 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.
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Citation Information
Chartrand, L. A. H..
"Aboriginal Rights: The Dispossession of the Métis."
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
29.3 (1991)
: 457-482.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60082/2817-5069.1743
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol29/iss3/2