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| | APTN FORUMS > Beyond Hunting, What Rights Should Metis Have? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | In reading some of the posts i have learned that in manitoba, alberta, and saskawan the halfbreeds were treated with little or no respect, or acceptance. |
 | | Riel, still under a cloud because of the Scott incident, was elected to Parliament in 1873 but was expelled from the house on a motion by the leader of the opposition, Alexander Mackenzie, a staunch Orangeman. |
 | | But that has little, if anything, to do with the history of the Métis. The British government did not police what was called Rupertsland, as according to their laws that territory belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company. There was virtually open warfare between the HBC and the Northwest Company, until they merged in 1820. |
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