Collection search - Racette, Augustin; for his deceased children; Euphrasine, born: 1872 or 1873 at Duck Lake; died: 1876 at Medicine Hat; Napoleon, born: 1874 at Duck Lake; died: 1877 at Duck Lake; address: Sweet Grass Hills; father: Augustin Racette (Métis and deponent); mother: Madeleine Parentau (Métis); file ref. 947423; claim no. 1470

Scrip was a certificate issued by the Department of the Interior which indicated the right of the holder to receive payment later in the form of money or land. The federal government distributed scrip to the Métis in exchange for their land rights, as a method of extinguishing their Aboriginal title to the land. The federal government also used scrip to distribute land to white settlers, including Original White Settlers, soldiers, and police who fought in the North West Resistance of 1885 (or North West Rebellion of 1885).