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| This was issued to the Metis by the Canadian government which could be exchanged for 160 acres or had a money value. |
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| The Metis were unable to take up their land in many cases because their scrip was bought by: |
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| Because many Metis felt cheated out of their land many left Manitoba for the: |
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| Lawrence Clarke used his position as magistrate to maintain control over which group of people? |
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| Leader of the Metis at St. Laurent. |
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| By the end of the 1870s this group of people had lost the right to make their own laws. |
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| North West Mounted Police |
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| In order to combat the American whisky traders, the Canadian government created this group to police the plains. |
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| The Aboriginal leaders signed _____________ with the Canadian government as they felt they had no other choice. |
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| According to Indian Commissioner Hayter Reed it was unnatural for Aboriginal peoples to operate: |
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| The purpose of this Act in 1876 was to formalize the assimilation of Aboriginal peoples. |
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| Because the Canadian government needed to sell land on the prairies it _____________ Metis petitions. |
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| The Metis, seeing the this group of people starving provided as much aid as they could |
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| Profession of Louis Riel when he lived in Montana. |
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| The Metis Bill of Rights addressed the concerns of these settlers. |
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| Factor and Magistrate who acted as legal advisor to the Metis, courier of the final Metis petition, and a government informant. |
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| In March of 1885 Riel felt that a peaceful resolution of the Metis grievances was impossible and decided to take up arms against this group. |
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| Number of Aboriginal leaders who joined the Northwest Uprising. |
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| Riel was taken prisoner at Batoche and was charged with: |
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| Sir John A. Macdonald felt that a railway had to be built quickly in 1871 because of a promise he made to which province? |
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| Macdonald obtained money for the 1872 election from wealthy American railway men in return for the: |
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| The Liberal government of Alexander Mackenzie were unwilling to spend money to build the: |
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| CPR access through the Rockies. |
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| CPR syndicate in 1880 was made up of men from these professions. |
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| Men who made up the CPR syndicate. |
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| The CPR syndicate decided to move the line of the railway south as they wanted total control over the location of the railway without the interference of this group of people who had bought up most of the land along the proposed northern route of the railway. |
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| New general manager of the CPR in 1881. |
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| Fate of an injured worker on the CPR. |
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| Person who drove the Last Spike of the CPR. |
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