1. First Nations People in Canada

2. First Nations people
Aboriginal people
Natives or Native people
Indians

3. between 350,000 and 500,000 First Nations people
first visitors from Europe – Vikings around 1,000AD
Left after conflict with natives
1497, King Henry VII of England sent the Italian, John Cabot, on an expedition to Newfoundland
Frenchman, Jacques Cartier sailed towards the St. Lawrence River during the 1530s
17th Century many European diseases kill native people
American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) separates U.S. and Canada
by 1867, between 100,000 and 125,000 First Nations people remained

4. the Indian Act (1820–1927)
between 1871 and 1921, a series of land surrender treaties throughout new territories
to secure Canadian sovereignty
to open the land for settlement and exploitation
to reduce possible conflict between First Nations and settlers
Indian Education and Residential Schools
1883, Indian Affairs policy on First Nations education used residential schools to "civilize" and "assimilate”
same subjects as Canadian children (reading, writing, arithmetic and English or French)
abandoned traditional languages, dress, religion and lifestyle
vast network of 132 residential schools established across Canada by the Catholic, United, Anglican and Presbyterian churches in partnership with the federal government
more than 150,000 Aboriginal children attended residential schools between 1857 and 1996
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission started in 1998 (ongoing)

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