Treaty 8, ten years later, used the same procedure to address land claims of an estimated 2,700 ‘Indians’ and 1,700 Métis. Because government officials had no real means of distinguishing the one category of people from the other living in the area, applicants were to choose either scrip or treaty by avowing one or the other identity. Although the option of having a choice on the basis of self-identification might seem to be somewhat of an improvement, the choice was offered primarily to benefit the government.[90] Ultimately the result was the imposition of artificial divisions among Aboriginal peoples.
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