The Manitoba Métis Federation is suing the provincial and federal governments after the Red River Métis were largely excluded from a class action settlement for Sixties Scoop survivors.

The Sixties Scoop refers to when thousands of First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were removed from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous foster or adoptive parents between 1951 and 1991, losing their cultural identities as a result.

The MMF's statement of claim, filed at the Manitoba Court of King's Bench on Nov. 18, accuses Manitoba and Canada of knowingly allowing, funding, directing and overseeing the Sixties Scoop to promote their own "racist, colonial, Euro-Canadian values."

The federal government announced an $800-million settlement for survivors in 2017 , though some waited years for

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