I believe that as a society Canadians are becoming more aware of the challenges faced by the Aboriginal peoples and are working to build both communities up together. In recent years there has been a renewal to right the wrongs that Aboriginal people have faced, including a renewed look into land claims and electing Aboriginal peoples to high government positions to ensure they receive proper recognition. Right now there is a land claim dispute over the Haldimand Tract. In 1974, the Six Nations created “the Six Nations Land Claims Research Office (SNLCRO) to pursue the terms laid out in the Haldimand Proclamation of 1784.” Since then, the SNLCRO has submitted twenty-nine different land claims over the land given to them in the Haldimand Treaty of 1784. These land disputes had begun as early as 1795, only ten years after the Haudenosaunee had begun to settle there.…
Since the British won the war, the British owned all of the First Nation's land and tribes such as the Huron didn’t enjoy that so they kept fighting against the British. The British had to do something so the British government made the Royal Proclamation. The Royal Proclamation was issued by the United Kingdom government in the name of King George III on October 7, 1763 after the British gained the French territory in North America. The purpose of the Royal Proclamation was to make better relations with the First Nations.…
To many people in Canada, particularly to the Metis of the Prairies, Louis Riel was undoubtedly a hero. Being of Metis heritage himself, Louis Riel stood up for his Metis people during some of their greatest hardships. In November of 1869, Riel composed the List of Rights for the Metis of the Red River territory to present to the federal government. The goal of the List of Rights was to establish the Red River area into confederation as the province of Manitoba, while guaranteeing the rights of the Metis at the same time. When the federal government continued to delay its acceptance of the List of Rights, Louis Riel helped in the formation of a provisional government in the Red River area, and also became its leader.…
According to the book’s publisher, McGill-Queen University Press, its authors include over “eighty elders from the five First Nations involved in Treaty 7 - the Bloods, Peigans, Siksika, Stoney, and Tsuu T'ina” . The first of these two articles, “A Treaty Right to Education” looks at the historical timeline regarding education in the treaties and how exactly they government of Canada has failed to provide education in reserves. This article argues that the Europeans failed to provide adequate education to the indigenous people as were promised in treaties one to seven which were negotiated between 1870 and 1877. The author goes into detail explaining the different ways in which the government failed to provide what it promised to survive which surprisingly is still occurring at the current time.…
The first reading addressed was “Settling differences: Managing and representing people and land in the Canadian national project.” by Eva Mackey. One of the first concepts Mackey discusses is the idea of “white settler innocence” (p. 26), which explores how European settlement in Canada claimed to be superordinate to the Native people already residing on the land, but seemingly treated them fairly, giving them land and autonomy, when in fact their intent was secretly selfish. Because of this “white settler innocence” (p. 26), Canada garnered a reputation as an accepting and tolerant nation, in particularly towards the Native people, especially when compared to the United State’s treatment of Native people. When in fact Canadian’s only used…
They were not happy with the idea of Quebec separating from the rest of the country. The Crees felt that if Quebec got the chose to leave Canada, then they too got the choice to keep their territory within Canada. They strongly argued that a unilateral declaration of independence by the province would be a violation of fundamental principles of democracy, human rights and consent. On October 24th, 1995, the aboriginal group launched a separate referendum. The question asked, “Do you consent, as a people, that the government of Quebec separate the James Bay Cress and Cree traditional territory in the event of a yes vote in the Quebec Referendum”.…
Riel is remembered for this horrific murder that he committed to, and is the greatest reason he is called a traitor to Canada. After the cold-blooded murder of Thomas Scott, Riel was exiled to the United States but this wasn’t the end to his story. Once again, the Métis’ rights were in trouble and Louis Riel came to the rescue. The second rebellion now took place, known as the…
According to Ferry, what recent developments in world trade have made it urgent for France to have colonies? Jules Ferry is a French stateman of the early third party who is remembered for championing laws that removed Catholic influence from most education in France. Jules promoted a vast extension of the French colonial empire. Jules ferry believed that France should imperialize other counties. Jules Ferry also believed that imperializing other countries would help improve France by providing resources and more.…
The president had ratified the treaty of point Elliot earlier on but the tribe was not enjoying full rights as United States citizens. It was until 1999 that they were given the authority of owning land in Washington. The Snoqualmie tribe had major significances…
Chief Pontiac was a frontiersman. He was very unnerved at the French’s decision to hand over land that wasn’t their land to give away in the first place. He along with other native Americans decided that they would continue fighting the settlers. The British were certainly not in a good position to fight considering their lack in financial and egotistical support. So of course the British were forced to come up with some kind of compromise.…
If asked, most people would point to the Revolutionary war as the war that made America. After all, it was when America declared independence from England and began to stand as its own nation, when all those lofty ideals of equality and liberty flourished and began to shape the modern American identity. But Fred Anderson makes a very different argument; that it was in fact the French and Indian war that would ultimately make the nation into what it is today by radically altering the political landscape in North America, creating the climate for those ideas to take form in the first place and, more importantly, by stripping the native populations of North America of power and allies, leaving them helpless against an encroaching white population. What begun as a power struggle between three major players – British, French, and Iroquois – in North America for control of…
Final Project: What if the French won the French and Indian War? In 1754, War broke out between the French, who were allied with numerous Native American Tribes, and Great Britain. This war resulted in a British victory with the French ceding all of their Canadian territories as well as their Louisiana Territory east of the Mississippi River. In the upcoming decades, the 13 Colonies would secede from Great Britain due to strong hostilities over taxes, improper representation, and numerous "intolerable acts '.…
The act also gave the government the power to remove Aboriginal peoples from reserves near towns with more than 8,000 people, and the power to seize parts of the Indigenous reserves for roads, railways, and other forms of public works (Jhappan, 22). The first time any real violence broke out as a result of land claims, was in 1990, when the municipal council decided to expand a golf course on land owned by the Mohawks as sacred territory. This led to an armed standoff between Mohawk warriors and the Quebec provincial police, in which one police offer was killed (Cochrane et al. 78). Bonspiel argues that Indigenous peoples do not have true sovereignty over their territory, because the power of the land still rests highly in the hands of the Crown. This issue proves that Indigenous rights and land claims are very closely intertwined; thus, making it evident that the appropriation of their land was a result of discrimination and lack of sovereignty during the pre-confederation…
They would later struggle to keep control of Rupert’s with the French, but they ceased control by 1763. By the 1850’s Canada had started to expand, and saw to the annex of the Northwest. The Hudson Bay Company then promoted the rumor that Rupert’s land was barren wasteland, unfit for human settlement, but by 1863 the International Financial Society bought controlling interest in the HBC, signaling a shift in the company ’s outlook: most of the new shareholders were less interested in the fur trade than in real estate speculation. The Hudson's Bay Company was prepared to sell to the Americans who would pay top dollar, but the British government made it clear it wanted the territory to be sold to Canada They then sold the land to the Dominion of Canada in 1870…