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Petitions
The
Metis people sent out numerous petitions in hopes to get land
claims. Petitions were sent out though the years of 1873 and
1884 by:
St.
Laurent: 1873-78, Lake Qu'Appelle: 1873-74, Blackfoot crossing-1877,
Prince Albert: 1878-81, Cypress mountain: 1878, St. Albert:
1878, Manitoba Village, N.W.T.: -1880, Edmonton: 1880, Battleford:
1881, Qu'Appelle Valley: 1882, Batoche: 1882, St. Louis: 1883
Many
of these petitions were never replied to and were ignored
by the Canadian government.
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