praise and condemnation for both government and the Metis actions. He believed the primitive people(p. 407 of the frontier were bewildered and frustrated by change and were unable to accept these changes or make adjustments to new circumstances therefore they fought against change. He attributed the erratic courses of events to a feeling likely to be encountered in all primitive peoples who felt that the country was theirs10D.N. Sprague wrote Canada and the Metis, a book that takes a more sympathetic approach towards the Metis. His book is a detailed look at the process and administration of the Metis land in Manitoba. Sprague felt that the Manitoba Act granted the Metis people fair treatment in principle, but that fair treatment was violated in the administrative aspect. He also believes that the manner in which the government administered the Manitoba Act, caused most of the original Metis population to flee to Saskatchewan; and those few that remained, become landless workers on their own land. The book explains that after Manitoba was inducted into the Dominion of Canada, the Metis population remained stable, but as the government began to mismanage the land the Metis began to flee to Saskatchewan. He writes,The exodus of the Metis from their original homeland and their difficulties in resettlement is more explicable by processes of formal and informal discouragement emanating from Canada than by the alleged preference of the Metis for the wandering life of homeless hunters. 11Sprague believes that it was the intention of the government to get rid of the Metis and that they even fraudulently administered the Manitoba Act, to bring about these desired results. Canadian authority was launched with a reign of terror to displace the Metis provisional government and to intimidate the general population into abject subjugation or migrationCanada engaged in a process of formal and informal discouragement kept up until Canada broke the ...
