Off Reserve Indians Research Paper

For many years the Indians have been challenging the government about how off-reserve Indians, “Métis”, were not granted the same rights as on-reserve Indians under The Constitution. The Federal Court made decision to grant off-reserve “Indians” the same rights under the constitution seeing as they had grown up and respect and live by this culture. The president of the Women of the Métis Nation states "we will no longer be a part of the political football that has us being tossed back and forth between the province and the federal government." Many off-reserve “Indians” have been very largely impacted by this decision because it will allow them to get the help and status they need to preserve their families. Before off-reserve Indians were granted these rights they were always told they were a provincial problem but when they had gone to the province asking for their rights to be granted they sent them to the Federal government as a purview. …show more content…
They wanted the same rights to education, health care, and many other benefits like hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering in the public eye as the Status Indians were given in Ottawa.
In the end the 400,000 non-status Indians were granted the same rights as status First Nations from Ottawa. Betty Ann Lavallée is the National Chief Congress of the Aboriginal Peoples say’s, “Today's decision will mark a new relationship with the government of Canada; Let's be honest. It's not going to change it immediately. It's not going to change it