An estimated 4,000 people voted unanimously in favour of a treaty between the Manitoba Métis Federation and the Crown at an assembly on Saturday.
Voting took place at an assembly at Assiniboia Downs, online and from eight satellite locations, Will Goodon, the Manitoba Métis Federation housing minister, told CBC News on Sunday.
“It was just an amazing day yesterday, with so many people coming together focused on making right what was done wrong to our people over 150 years ago,” he said.
The Métis are the only Indigenous nation to negotiate a province into Confederation through the Manitoba Act in 1870, Goodon said, but promises
