Social Timeline

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  • Jan 12, 1530

    1530

    1530
    Fur trade starts between the First Nations and Europeans

  • 1870

    1870
    First Nation people are free independent people with their own goverment

  • 1876

    1876
    Canada;s Parliament passes the Indian act to ban certain first nation ceremonies

  • 1879

    1879
    Residential schools are made to assimilate First Nation children from first nation to Canadian

  • 1939

    1939
    First Nations organize the Indian asscocaiton

  • 1946

    1946
    Treaties with Great Britain and the trust was given to the Canadian government to live up to treaties. First Nations have felt that (Canadian) officials have not complied with those treaties.

  • 1969

    1969
    White Paper signed between Canadian Government and First Nation people to abolish Indian Act. The barriers created by special legislation, such as treaties, can generally be struck down

  • 1980

    1980
    Canada entrenching treaty and aboriginal rights within the constitution. Recongnition of unique history and destiny within Canada

  • 1982

    1982
    Pierre Trudeau led negotiations to patriate Canada's constitution in 1982

  • 2007

    2007
    First Nations negotiated the Treaties to share the land, so that first Nations peoples and non- First Nations peoples could benefit

  • 1970

    1970
    The Government must declare that it accepts the treaties as binding. The treaties are historic, moral and legal obligations.

  • 2002

    2002
    First Nations and Canada's government agree that the Indian Act needs updating. But First Nations rejected the government's attempt in 2002.