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The Hudsons Bay Company arrived in Canada claiming Ruperts Land, an area that belonged to Indigenous peoples.
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France cedes Canada to Great Britain forever changing Canada for Indigenous peoples.
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The War of 1812 sees tens of thousands of Indigenous people fight for their land, independence, and culture, as allies of either Great Britain or the United States.
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The Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ontario, accepted its first boarding students in 1831.
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The gradual Civilization Act required male Indians over the age of 21 to read, write and speak either English or French.
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The Act aims to eradicate First Nations culture in favour of assimilation into Euro-Canadian society.
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Only a third of the Mohawk people agree to move.
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The federal government outlawed the potlatch ceremony of Aboriginal peoples.
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Between 4,000 and 6,000 Indigenous people serve in the Canadian military during the First World War.
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First Nations children between 7 and 16 years of age are now required to attend.
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Indians receive the right to vote in federal elections, no longer losing their status or treaty rights in the process.
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Willie Adams was appointed to the Senate for the Northwest Territories.
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They moved several times finally ending up on a settlement on their hunting grounds at the mouth of the Ottawa river, the settlement was called Kanesatake.
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Thousands of Indigenous children are still in the system.
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This action would trigger the "Oka Crisis" since the expansion would be built over Kanehsatà:ke’s cemetery and land.
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Kanehsatà:ke people immediately erect a barricade on the dirt road that leads to the disputed land.
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The people in the Pines refuse to dismantle their barricade. The Warriors Society join the people of Kanehsatà:ke and the barricade is reinforced.
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In British Columbia several railways and roads are blocked.
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A resemblance of a Mohawk Warrior is hanged and burned. This happens several nights in a row.
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A week later 4,000 soldiers with more than a thousand vehicles are placed in and around Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawake.
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Fearing an imminent invasion of the community by Canadian troops, the people of Kahnawake evacuate. A convoy of 75 cars leave Kahnawake. They are greeted by a furious mob that throws rocks at the passing vehicles. Several people are injured.
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The bridge was closed for over a month
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There are only forty warriors left in the camp. Later that day an army bulldozer dismantles the main Mohawk barricade on provincial road 344.
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After discussions as to what should be done next, the Mokawk Warriors decide to disengage.
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In 1969, the system was taken over by the Department of Indian Affairs, ending church involvement. The government decided to phase out the schools, but this met with resistance from the Church, which felt that separated education was the most appropriate approach for Indigenous children.
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The Commission was established with the purpose of documenting the history and lasting impacts of the Canadian Indian residential school system on Indigenous students and their families.
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In Parliament, Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers an apology to residential school survivors and all Indigenous Canadians.
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Four women start Idle No More as a national (and online) movement of marches and teachings.
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The conflict began with an interim court injunction in December 2018 ordered people to stop preventing Coastal GasLink workers from gaining access to the road and bridge.
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At the Gidimt'en camp on Jan. 7, 2019, arresting 14 people.
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Protests at railways across Canada, ferry terminals, major roads, and government offices ensue.
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Tyendinaga is in Mohawk Territory near Belleville, Ont.
The railway is blocked with timber and tires. CN shortly follows by shutting down their operations in Eastern Canada -
A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief say they have reached an arrangement in discussing the pipeline dispute.
