Wikibooks: Canadian History/Aboriginals and the Canadian State

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Cabot; Canada; First Nations; inuit; muskox
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_History/Aboriginals_and_the_Canadian_State

= 100 Centuries Ago 1497 = 100 centuries ago Aboriginals come from Asia in boats and over land bridge as Ice Age ends. Hunt mammoths and buffalo. 100 50 centuries ago Slowly societies evolve complete with alliances trading war and art. Expansion across the continent leads to settlements throughout Canada. 4.000 years ago Tunits followed caribou and muskox into the Arctic and settle. 1 000 years ago Inuit come to Arctic Tunit mysteriously disappear. Climate is considerably warmer than today. The Inuit were the last great migration of First Nations all the other Native populations were settled by this point. 1 000 years ago Leif Ericsson and the Norse find Canada. 1 000 years ago Leif Ericsson attempts to settle Canada but a combination of fierce Natives rough seas a cooling climate drive him and his people away. ·1497 John Cabot lands in Canada. Lunn Janet and Christopher Moore. = Late 1800 s = The first treaties between the First Nations and the European Settlers were signed in 1871. These treaties were the Europeans way of controlling the First Nations in a legal non violent manner. However the terms on which these treaties were written were far from fair. The treaties asked the First Nations to sign away most of the land which they occupied in return for a grant of 600 square meters of land per family of 5 people. Some of this land would be used for the Europeans settlements infrastructure. The Europeans also asked the First Nations to promise to keep alcohol off the reserves in order to help keep the peace. The First Nations were offered a small sum of money rights to hunt and fish on their own land (which they already had) lessons in how to farm the land they were given and schooling for the young First Nations so that they could learn to read and write English. The First Nations appeared to be selfless in their act to agree to the terms of the Europeans. However the First Nations didn’t really have a choice because their natural food sources were slowly disappearing. The First Nations needed land to get ...