Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Métis

The Métis are smarter than they were portrayed, due to the fact that they were able to adapt to a new way of life when their previous way of living changed, even though they have no choice, they learnt to adapt and make do with what they have. The Métis were at a disadvantage, some may think they were taken advantage of, they were unfamiliar “with the complexities of the new legal system,” there were “difficulties in reading or speaking English; and lack of contacts with prospective buyers (Flanagan, pg. 18).” According to Sprague, he “argues that through a process of formal and informal discouragement, the Métis were victims of a deliberate conspiracy in which John A. Macdonald and the Canadian government successfully kept them from obtaining