{"id":29441,"date":"2013-03-10T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29441"},"modified":"2013-03-10T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T16:43:42","slug":"canadas-metis-win-142-year-old-land-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29441","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s M\u00e9tis win 142-year-old land ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-21722379\" target=\"_blank\">Canada&#8217;s M\u00e9tis win 142-year-old land ruling<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2013-03-08<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Supreme Court has ruled the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9tis<\/a> indigenous group 142 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In a 6-2 ruling, the top court said the failure was &#8220;not a matter of occasional negligence, but of repeated mistakes and inaction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The M\u00e9tis are descendants of indigenous people and European immigrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The land was promised in a 1870 law, to settle a rebellion of existing M\u00e9tis amid a wave of settlement in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manitoba\" target=\"_blank\">Manitoba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After delays, it was eventually distributed via a lottery that largely benefited European settlers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmf.mb.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manitoba M\u00e9tis Federation<\/a> (MMF), which brought the suit, celebrated the end of three decades of legal challenges over the land-grant provision&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-21722379\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s M\u00e9tis win 142-year-old land ruling BBC News 2013-03-08 Canada&#8217;s Supreme Court has ruled the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the M\u00e9tis indigenous group 142 years ago. In a 6-2 ruling, the top court said the failure was &#8220;not a matter of occasional negligence, but of repeated mistakes and inaction&#8221;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,459,1467,8,3015],"tags":[8597,9392],"class_list":["post-29441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-bbc-news","tag-manitoba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}