Indian-white relations: Canadian
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Trade, Commerce, Native Americans, American Indians, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Treaties, Agreements, Negotiations, Frontier, Pioneers, Demographics, Population, Discrimination, Prejudice
- Curriculum: American Indian History, Canadian History
- Geographical Location: Canada
- Date: 1500's-present
Article abstract: Canadian Indian-white relations, while less confrontational than relations in the United States, have focused on the same issues of land and self-determination.
Whereas American Indian-white relations frequently focused on confrontation and hostility, Canadian relations focused predominantly on trade and legal cession of land. Though both countries followed policies of assimilation and cultural extermination at different points, Canada progressed further in its attempts to treat its native population as participants in the political...
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