This is an inter­view I did with the great and knowl­edge­able Tony Bel­court who is a Métis leader from Ontario. He was there when Abo­rig­i­nal organ­i­sa­tions and espe­cial­ly the Métis defend­ed their ideals of sov­er­eign­ty and treaty rights. He dis­cuss­es the roles and the his­to­ries sur­round­ing the 1980 – 1982 Con­sti­tu­tion­al nego­ti­a­tions between the fed­er­al, provin­cial gov­ern­ments and the Abo­rig­i­nal gov­ern­ments. For any­one want­i­ng to know more where the word Abo­rig­i­nal comes from, the ori­gins of many Abo­rig­i­nal organ­i­sa­tions and the impor­tance of this era to Indige­nous Rights in Cana­da you would do well to lis­ten to the words of Tony.