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1876 - Residential schools
The residential schools were where the First Nations were sent to learn about the Europeans ways and to forget about there own cultures,Languages and their identities. The people that went to residential schools got separated from their family's. The First Nations thought they weren't allowed to learn about their own cultures or languages when they were done at the residential schools -
1876 - The Indian Act
Canada's parliament passed eh Indian act, The Indian Act made rules about the the lives of the first nations lives without consulting them. At the time when the Indian act was first passed, Canada's government viewed the First Nations as people who could not be trusted and who needed guidance.Canada though they were not superior to the ways of other people. -
1880's smallpox
The First Nations wanted to try to secure their futures, They were having economic and social problems because of smallpox and epidemics, The eradication of the buffalo, the end of the fur trade and the pressure of European settlement. -
1982
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau led negotiations to patriate rights of first nation metis and inuit people in the constitution. -
1869-1870
The metis led the red river resistance which resulted in the manitoba act this act made manitoba a bilingual province and the metis received more than 500,00 hectors of land. -
1875 - 1879
Canada's government issued skrip to the meties. The scrip could be exchanged for land it was like money that could only be used by Metis people. It offered the metis a choice they could accept the scrip or become treaty indians. -
1938
Alberta government passed the metis population betterment act this established 12 tempuwery metis settlements -
1763 - he rights of the first nations were recognised
The Royal proclamation of 1963 recognised the rights of the first nations to their lands in parts of north america calmed by the British. British issued the royal proclamation after it defected France in the seven years war and became the dominant colonial power in north america. -
1890 - the railway was built
Canada wanted to build a railway to link the province of British Columbia to the rest of Canada and they wanted to help open the west to immigration. B.C. joined confederation on condition that Canada would build the railway. -
1938
Alberta government passed the metis population betterment act this established 12 temporary
mites settlements -
North west resistance page 154
It helped the metis Because there land was being protected for them and they didn't have to do it they had other people doing it for them. -
Numbered treaties 124 - 125
It wasn't fair to the first nations people because they couldn't fully understand what the treaty said so they were signing something that could mean something completely different from what the interpreter said to them. -
1899
treaty 8 was an agreenment signed on june 21, 1899, between queen victoria and some of the first nations from the lesser slave lake are. -
Red river resistance 153
The red river resistance did not help the first nations because manitoba was getting all the land and they were losing land so that Manitoba couldn't have it. The first nations gave the land to the people in manitoba when they signed the treaty. -
Residential schools 131
It didn't help the first nations because they were forced to learn the European ways instead of learning their culture and their ways. -
Indian act 130
The indian act did not help the First nations because they weren't aware of the new laws and rights so they were being punished so breaking the rights and laws when they didn't know about it i don't think it affected them in a good way. -
1877 - Treaty 7
Treaty 7 is one of 11 numbered treaties signed between First Nations and the crown between 1871 and 1921. The treaties established a delimited area of land for the tribes also called a reserve. It promised annul payments and they got to keep the right for hunting and trapping.
