. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. se that broiiglit about the rising of 1869 and 1879: delay in recognizingthe riglUs of Halfhreeils in connectiiii of the extinguishment of the Indiantitle to the soil; uneasiness cnnse(|ucnt upon the unexplained policy of theauthorities entrusted with the surveying of the lands; and the total neglectof formal protests entered by the aggrieved parties. Under the Manitoba Act of 1870 a large area in the new Province wasset apart to be divided among the Halfbreeds and Ijy sul)se(|uent legislationit was provided that Hallbreed heads of families .sh
. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. se that broiiglit about the rising of 1869 and 1879: delay in recognizingthe riglUs of Halfhreeils in connectiiii of the extinguishment of the Indiantitle to the soil; uneasiness cnnse(|ucnt upon the unexplained policy of theauthorities entrusted with the surveying of the lands; and the total neglectof formal protests entered by the aggrieved parties. Under the Manitoba Act of 1870 a large area in the new Province wasset apart to be divided among the Halfbreeds and Ijy sul)se(|uent legislationit was provided that Hallbreed heads of families .should receive scrip for160 acres apiece. .\t the lime the census was taken to form a basis forthe issue of this scrip many Red River Halfbreeds were absent or residentin the Territories, and were therefore not included: manifestly, however,their rights were as Yalid and binding as were those of their brethren inManitoba. , 245 -\K-i. / I / / CHAPMINORE5I0EHTIASECTION J^P^ i^JHU %^^j___. „^-rfr-^1. i\ ^ b-—-_.,... Jl -^tSk ^*«r«f3*;.. \y .g^r:- ; ?-iiiSt ^^s^:2 ^Iji*??**?*^,-*.—-* ^., uJ;—^ ^ RIVER VIEW -SASKATOON HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF SASKATCI1E\\AX 247 Tlif questiciii did not bccfuiic iirgeul in the Xurtli ^^?(.?st at a very earlydale. However, in May, 1873, \vc find John Fisher and a number of otherHalfbreeds in the Territories petitioning through Lieutenant-GovernorMorris for equitable land grants in extinguishment of their Indian 1874 Mr. John McKay, of Prince .Mbcrt (brother of the HonorableJames }vIcKav, of Iort Garry,) informed the North West Council that atPrince Albert there were already between 300 and 400 English Ilalfbreeds,who, like the French Halfbreeds of St. Laurent on the south branch of theSaskatchewan, were exceedingly anxious to have the land question tiie same year the Reverend Father Decorb}, missionary at Lake OuAp-pelle, wrote Mr. Laird, then IMinister of the Interior, regarding the anxietyof the Halfljreeds i
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