Metis people very suspicious of their new white neighbors and suspicious of the actions of the Canadian government. Stanley believes that it was this suspiciousness and sullenness that caused the Metis to seek out new lands in Saskatchewan... not malice on the part of the government. Unfortunately, what the Metis soon discovered was that their!
             status as " first settlers into the North West Territories, didn't exempt them from the," Dominion Lands Act" that had been passed. Stanley believes the government may have been wrong to disregard the Metis claims. "The attempt to impose an unfamiliar, and to the Metis unsatisfactory system of survey, and thus deprive them of their river- frontages and destroy their community life, invited armed resistance."4 Therefore, nobody, least of all the government, should have been surprised by the fact that the Metis once again went south to seek out Riel, or that once again, a provisional government was formed. Why wouldn't the Metis do exactly what they had done in "The Re
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