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The legislation consisted of the Metis Settlements Accord Implementation Act (Bill 33), the Metis Settlements Land Protection Act (Bill 34), the Metis Settlements Act (Bill 35), and the Constitution of Alberta Amendment Act 1990 (Bill 36). Through this legislation, title to a total of 1,250,000 acres (510,000 ha) of land was transferred to the ...
Ultimately, these negotiations culminated in the signing of the Alberta-Metis Settlements Accord in 1989. The following year, pursuant to the Accord, Alberta passed the Metis Settlements Act and related legislation, and granted the Metis Settlements General Council (MSGC) fee-simple title to the lands of what are now known as the Metis ...
Alberta is the only Canadian province with a recognized Métis land base: the eight Métis settlements, with a population of approximately 5,000 people on 1.25 million acres (5,100 km 2) [12] and the newer Metis lands near Fort McKay, purchased from the Government of Alberta in 2017.
The Métis Population Betterment Act was a 1938 act of the Alberta Legislature in Canada that created a committee of members of the Métis and the government to plot out lands for allocation to the Métis. Twelve areas were mapped out for this purpose, with the idea of creating ongoing cooperation between the Métis and Crown representatives ...
These individuals persuaded the Alberta government to investigate the poor living conditions of the Metis groups that were affected by the Northwest Rebellion. Thanks to these actions, the Alberta government passed the Metis Betterment Act in 1938 to establish a number of settlements for the Metis groups to call their home. [ 9 ]
Aboriginal peoples in Canada are defined in the Constitution Act, 1982 as Indians, Inuit and Métis.Prior to the acquisition of the land by European empires or the Canadian state after 1867, First Nations (Indian), Inuit, and Métis peoples had a wide variety of polities within their countries, from band societies, to tribal chiefdoms, multinational confederacies, to representative democracies ...
The Metis Settlement was created from the Métis Population Betterment Act of 1938. This act was passed by the Alberta government, due to the poorly structured living conditions that the Metis people were living in. The Metis people were already living on this land, they just did not have their own governance of this land. [10]
In Alberta, the Constitution of Alberta Amendment Act, 1990 limits powers of the province's legislative assembly by requiring consent of Metis settlement members to change laws regarding expropriation of Metis land. Courts have not yet ruled about whether this kind of language really would bind future legislatures, but it might do so if the ...