Road allowance community

It was generally difficult for Métis people to redeem scrip for their promised lands, forcing them to settle illegally in unclaimed road allowances.

[1][2][3] After the Battle of Batoche (1885), many Métis people were burned out of the homes and evicted by settlers; many of their children were sent into the Canadian Indian residential school system.

[2] Historian Jesse Thistle describes road allowance communities as spaces of resilience and cultural resistance.

[2][6][7] The documentary Ashes and Tears tells about the forcible relocation of the road allowance community of Lestock to Green Lake in 1949.

[8] Maria Campbell preserves some of the Métis oral histories of this time in her book, Stories of the Road Allowance People.