Three Métis teams have signed a cope with Ottawa that acknowledges them as Indigenous governments.
The deal between the federal authorities and the Métis nations of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario provides them powers that embrace management over citizenship and the precise to barter additional agreements, resembling compensation for land misplaced as a result of infamous Métis scrip program.
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It builds on a earlier doc signed in 2019 that acknowledged that Métis individuals have the precise to self-government.
Métis Nation of Alberta President Audrey Poitras says the deal, signed in Edmonton by federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller, will give her members the identical constitutional standing as First Nations individuals.
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She says it’ll permit Métis to realize management over essential points resembling housing, and baby and household providers.
It may also permit talks to start over compensation for scrip, a sort of coupon that Métis individuals had been issued within the nineteenth century to extinguish their title to the land they’d occupied for generations.
Much of that scrip was swindled from them or purchased for pennies on the greenback.
