First nations and Canada

The Beothuk were hunted and killed by Europeans because they lived in the same area. Beothuk were forced inland and had

no resources

• The british didn’t get along very well with the first nations, this could be from the seven years war and the British maybe wanted to get some sort of revenge by marginalizing them

Government

• European Canadians established governments, police forces, and courts of law with different foundations than indigenous practice

Integration

• European Canadians encouraged First Nations to assimilate into their own culture, referred to as “Canadian culture". The assumption was that it was the correct one because the Canadians of European descent saw themselves as dominant, and technologically, politically and culturally more advanced.

Residential schools

• Residential schools were intended to force the assimilation of Canadian Aboriginal and First Nations people into European-Canadian society

• This involved punishing children for speaking their own languages or practicing their own faiths

Reserves• the federal Indian policy was directed at

removing Indigenous people from their communal lands and encouraging assimilation

• The claims of Indigenous people were ignored, and the commission allocated new, less valuable lands for First Nations

World wars

• the government declared that, as British subjects, all able Indian men of military age could be called up for training and service in Canada or overseas

Voting

• First nations people were not allowed to vote or have any say in the government until 1960

• First nations people had no one to represent them politically tell 1990

Women's status

• Aboriginal women who married white men would loose their aboriginal status

• Aboriginal men who married white women would not loose their status and neither would their kids

The end result

• As a result of assimilation aboriginals have lost their language, culture, values and beliefs.

• Aboriginal peoples have lost their native languages and often all but surviving elders, speak English or French as their first languages