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White Paper (unit 3)

This relates to unit 2 because it shows how we separated and tried to assimilate the aboriginal people into the society even though it was the wrong thing to do.

This primary resource is an exert from The Unjust Society by Harold Cardinal. This shows continuity for that time period because Aboriginal people were very discriminated against, but now we see a change and tat change is that everyone is equal no matter their skin color or religion.

The white paper is a thinly disguised program of extermination through assimilation. for the Indian to survive says the Government in effect he must become a good little brown white man. "The only good Indian is a non-Indian." History Uncovered

Pierre Trudeau and the Indian Affairs signed to bring it into action

The white Paper was brought in to assimilate all the aboriginal people

This event happend in 1969

The White paper was affecting all the first nation people across Canada

The white paper was thinly disguised program of extermination through assimilation

The Canadian Government had the White paper which affected the rights of all the first nations people in Canada

Indian Act (unit 1)

This primary source shows that the act was an attempt to generalize and assimilate one group of people into a society that does not accept them even if they had the same religions and beliefs

The act was an attempt to generalize a vast and varied population of people and assimilate them into a non-indigenous society https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/indian-act/

The Indian act cam into action in 1879 and it was amended in 1917

The Canadian Government put the Indian act into action because they wanted the country to have only one religion and one race and one kind of people

The Indian act affected all the first nations peoples all over Canada

The Government could control first nations land, resources, education and their travel

The Canadian Government could control most aspects of the firs nations lives with the Indian act

Residential Schools in 1930 (unit 2)

This relates to unit 1 because it is a direct consequence of the Indian act because it is the taking away of the aboriginal children which is in the Indian act and amended in 1917.

This Primary source is a quote by Elise Charles Basque and it tells us what they were actually teaching kids in Residential Schools. This shows change in what we learn in our schools and what they learnt in theirs. This also puts a perspective on what they were doing to the kids in the residential Schools.

"I was in the 8th grade when I arrived at the school in February 1930 and in the 8th grade when I left in 1932. What had I learnt in those 28 months? How to darn a sock sew a straight seam on the sewing machine and how to scrub clothes on a wash board." Elise Charles Basque

The government was trying to assimilate them through the residential schools

The Canadian Government wanted to assimilate and change all the Aboriginal children

This event took place in the 1930's

There was 80 residential schools all over Canada

They were being assimilated there but it was not working

The residential schools were affecting Aboriginal Children

Oka Crisis (unit 4)

This connects to unit 3 because it demonstrates the issues between us and the first nations people and help making Canada a more accepting country.

This primary source explains what is going on in the Oka crisis at that time. It also shows what the Feral Government is doing to make significant changes for the First Nation people.

The Federal Government says it will not negotiate any settlement to the Oka land dispute until the Quebec Government resolves the armed standoff between the Mohawks and the Provincial Police Globe and Mail, July 20, 1990, P.A1

The Crisis was a result of the government continuing to ignore First Nations rights

The town wanted to build on the land that the Mohawks owned but the Mohawks did not want them to build there

This event took place in the town of Oka, Quebec

The town of Oka wanted to expand a golf course on land that the Mohawks owned

The Quebec Provincial Police the Military and the Mohawks of Kanesatake were in a dispute about land