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Originally Posted by Redfrog
I was hoping for at least one answer from our Metis members. I guess the question is too difficult.  |
The way my grandfather explained it to me was that the red river settlement was displaced as to form a community for the white settlers. In return the Métis where given “script” or a parcel of land outside of the area that was taken from them, once the white settlement grew larger the Métis land was again taken and replaced with another parcel further out, it was again taken without compensation and the Métis dispersed, no idea the validity of the story but it’s what I was told by the old Métis in my family who are now long dead. It was their version of an individual reservation that was taken from them without compensation