Important Legacies

of Imperialism in

Canada

THE PAST

First Peoples, p. 174

Depopulation

• European settlement: land use

• Displacement of First Nations people

• Conflict

• Disease

Population Change

Keeping the Peace?

• Assimilation

• Adaptation

• Ownership?

• Oral vs. Written

Numbered Treaties

The Indian Act

• 1876

• Goal?

• Today?

Residential Schools

NO CHOICE.

NO VOICE.

YOUR TASK

Considering Canada’s Efforts at

Restitution