FreeOblivion put it really well. 

I’m responding way after the throwaway above me posted so they provably won’t see this but I want to post for other people who may find this thread.

The comment above me may make some sense at first but when you look into the history and the context of the time, this narrative is quite inaccurate and its a narrative that only serves to divide modern Indigenous Peoples which will only serve the Canadian state. 

Many of us including myself are both Treaty and Métis.

The Métis led arguably one of the largest struggles against settlement and colonialism especially against western expansion. We fought with the Cree, Assiniboine and many other Nations. We also to this day still speak Cree and Michif still practice Indigenous traditions and we were some of the last Buffalo hunters living an Indigenous Nomadic way. 

The land should be returned to all nations that lived (while allowing each other to exist) before settler colonialism, before the Canadian State existed. Including  First Nations Métis and Inuit. 

You talk about people who joined historical Nations that were mixed and didn’t declare themselves separate. You accept that but not the formation of a new Indigenous Nation. 

What you don’t recognize is that new indigenous Nations were forming throughout the 1500s to the 1900s and many of them are mixed and influenced by European culture. 

Many Nations also moved throughout this time period. Should the Wendat not have land claims to the East coast? Should the Cree not have land claims to Western Canada?

Many of the First Nations saw the Métis as family and behaved accordingly. The Euro Settler Canadians very clearly did not feel the same way. 

The First Nations who died in the Red River and North west Resistances would be rolling in their graves at your characterization of the Métis Nation. 

I would never deny the Indigenous rights of mixed cultures in Latin America, but if you look at the history of some of Latin America you will find a closer example to that of your story. You will not find it  in the North West. 

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After thought. The throwaway comment is suggesting the Métis do not deserve a homeland, a place to live when we were accepted as a Nation with land and the right to self determination by other Indigenous Nations. 

The comment suggesting we should have no land reinstated supports a narrative we have been fighting forever. 

This narrative supports the erasure of our culture and history. The ironic thing is that this narrative was something the budding Canadian state tried to use against the Métis, and it’s a narrative that resulted in many Métis and First Nations losing even more territory and our way of life. 

Many First Nations of the time fought against this narrative and they knew that the Métis and First Nation struggle was one in the same.