Lesson 11

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  • Jan 1, 1492

    Arrival of Christopher Columbus

  • English King Charles II’s cousin Prince Rupert was the first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company which laid claim to the West

  • Treaty of Utrecht

  • Period: to

    The Red River Rebellion of 1869-70 (sometimes called the Red River Resistance)

  • 1876 Indian Act

  • The Northwest Rebellion of 1885

  • battles of Duck Pond, Fish Creek, Frog Lake and Batoche

  • The first Métis Betterment Act

  • Period: to

    Sixties Scoop

  • the second Métis Betterment Act

  • Alberta Federation of Métis Settlements was founded

  • Canada’s Métiswon that recognition through revisions to the Canadian constitution.

  • the former National Indian Brotherhood was reconstituted and renamed the Assembly of First Nations.

  • Canadian Constitution

  • The Alberta Government passed Motion 18

  • questionnaire circulated by the Ontario Metis and Non-Status Indian Association (OMNSIA)

  • the Assembly of First Nations negotiated the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement

  • 1.4 million people in Canada identify themselves as an Aboriginal person, according to the 2011 National Household Survey

  • A 2014 RCMP report on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

  • . Special UN envoy, James Anaya, released a preliminary report in May of 2014

  • Tuesday June 2nd Justice Murray St. Clair would release the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report