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After the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870, many of the Métis moved from Manitoba to the Fort Carlton region of the North-West Territories, where they founded a settlement at Batoche on the South Saskatchewan River.

However, in Manitoba settlers from Ontario began to arrive.

They pushed for land to be allotted in the square concession system of English Canada, rather than the seigneurial system of strips reaching back from a river which the Métis were familiar with in their French-Canadian culture.

In addition, the Métis and First Nations were alarmed that the American bison were being hunted to extinction, as for generations the Métis had depended on them as a chief source of food.