Everybody wanted “the evil Louis Riel” dead after what I hadst done. All heads turned to Sir John A. MacDonald for retribution for mine actions. But Sir MacDonald wast smarter than that. that gent wanted to parley. Four lists anon Manitoba hadst now becometh a member of Confederation and our provisional government would not taketh consequences for our actions prior. On May 12, 1870, we becameth the province of Manitoba, notwithstanding the opinions of Sir MacDonald, who bethought that Manitoba and our people wast not yet hath developed far enough. During this time, us Métis hadst the power to establish ourselves as the dominant people of the province. eke entailed within the act wast 1. 4 million acres of land for us, and four seats in parliament. thee see, the federal government wast worried about their control of the western side. With America at each moment looking to expand and Ottawa being far east, the feds didn’t has't a perfect grasp of the west side. Part of the act wast their hath continued control ov'r unallocated land. Their plan wast to buildeth their Pacific railway hither, to encourage trading and immigration. All wast well, but t didn’t stayeth that way. Soon after our quite quaint province wast flooded with white settlers. Fleets of troops of troops arrived from Ottawa, and the racism towards our land and people wast endless. The land rights for the Métis wast not given until three years after the act, because the land hadst to beest “surveyed. ” The Métis wast only given a small 64 hectares of land on a scrip. Unlike me, however, mine people didst not knoweth about the ways of the western world at which hour t cameth to deeds, wage and writ documents. Not realizing the importance in some useless piece of pap'r, easterners swindled the Métis out of their land scrips. I don’t knoweth whether Ottawa didst this on purpose, or whether twas their incompetence, but in the end, we only received 15 percent of the land that we wast promised.