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Contact In The Western World

By dillonkeely
  • Period: Oct 12, 1492 to Oct 2, 1535

    A New World

    • Europeans discover new land
    • First Nations way of life altered forever
    • Created tensions between FN and Europeans that will last forever

  • First Colonies

    First Colonies
    • land and resource would have to be shared among the FN and Europeans
    • Created disputes and war among First Nations allying the British and French
    • Struggling colonies to servive created the legacy of Mercantilism

  • Hudsons Bay Company

    Hudsons Bay Company
    • First trade of goods between FN and Europeans
    • First Nations tecnologies improve
    • First Nation trade of fur suplied the Europeans demand and affected the animals on the prairies
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    Seven Years War

    • More First Nations were killed as allies of France and Britian then both European coutries combined
    • European and First Nations weaponry and war tactics were combined
    • War fought on Western soil destroying the land
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    North West Company

    • Creates trade conflict among French, British and First Nations
    • First Nations were more welcoming to these French settlers/ traders
    • Created tensions between First Nations because their trading partners

  • Red River Colony

    Red River Colony
    • Created Metis uprisings
    • One of the first tries at a settlement by FN
    • would solidify trade and food source for traders

  • Merging Of HBC and NWC

    Merging Of HBC and NWC
    • created the monopoly for trade again
    • well established trading between FN and Europans
    • First Nations technologies and way of life will never be the same

  • The Indian Act

    The Indian Act
    • Governed relationship of First Nations with the government
    • Defined First nations people as "Status Indians"
    • FN had to pursue land claims by asking permission from Superintendant of Indian Affairs

  • Diseases

    Diseases
    • Smallpox killed thousand of Cree and Blackfoot
    • First time exposed to these European diseases, immunnity would eventually develop
    • Wiped of a third of the whole western population First Nations
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    Numbered Treaties

    • Misunderstanding land for money trade between FN and Europeans
    • First Nations given certain land to live on ( reserves)
    • Made tensions based upon oral versus written documents of the treaties that still go on today
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    Residential Schools

    • Destroyed the future of the First Nations heritage and culture
    • Took First Nations children from their families destroying bonds
    • Assilimated lots of the younger First Nations of their culture