Canada's Treatment of the Metis After The Creation of Manitoba

The Metis had problems with the bison and the land. The land all the Metis needed a scrip they could trade it in for money. The scrip was worth $160 but people's children got $240 and the Metis either they buy there land with money or the scrip they do not choose where they get to live that was the whole problem with the land. The Metis economy was based on hunting bison and hauling freight for the HBC. The amount of bison were declining after Manitoba was created so many Metis in order to make money and trade things they had to follow other's and go North West so they can go to an area where more bison lives. In the winter of 1874 it was really difficult for the Metis since the lost of bison. Clarke a magistrate used his increased authority on the HBC so they would have a bigger benefit. Therefore this made any Metis would be imprisoned if any Metis objected to low pay. Metis in the Spring got caught for hunting when the hunting for bison season did not began so the hunt captain Gabriel Dumont arrested and fined the Metis that was doing an illegal hunt, because the Metis wanted to get pemmican for money. The bison disappeared, because many American's slaughtered them, because they wanted the America West to be more available to the European Settlers there for make the First Nations a reservation. "Let them kill, skin and sell until the buffalo are exterminated. Then your prairies can be covered with speckled cattle and the festive cowboy.""The disappearance of the buffalo has left them not only without food, but also without robes, moccasins, and adequate [shelter]..." The Metis and First Nations struggled to maintain their ways of life after having the whole food and trade system wiped out.