This publication discusses how the Métis developed their own culture and clearly established their rights to the land and its resources, based on their aboriginal ancestry and on their ability to assert that right through their national collectively which was proclaimed by their military power. The Métis were formerly an industrious, resourceful people who were introduced to poverty through the methods described more fully in the text. The information provided in this text on land scrip clearly illustrates that most of the Métis lost their rights to their homelands because of a system, which they could hardy understand. The Métis were a non-literate society, yet all their land dealings were based on written, legalistic documents. The book discusses the injustices of the Métis during the 1800's and how the descendants of the Métis people fought hard during the first three quarters of the nineteenth century to correct the wrongs that had been place upon them.