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Fur trade starts between the First Nations and Europeans
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First Nation people are free independent people with their own goverment
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Canada;s Parliament passes the Indian act to ban certain first nation ceremonies
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Residential schools are made to assimilate First Nation children from first nation to Canadian
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First Nations organize the Indian asscocaiton
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Treaties with Great Britain and the trust was given to the Canadian government to live up to treaties. First Nations have felt that (Canadian) officials have not complied with those treaties.
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White Paper signed between Canadian Government and First Nation people to abolish Indian Act. The barriers created by special legislation, such as treaties, can generally be struck down
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Canada entrenching treaty and aboriginal rights within the constitution. Recongnition of unique history and destiny within Canada
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Pierre Trudeau led negotiations to patriate Canada's constitution in 1982
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First Nations negotiated the Treaties to share the land, so that first Nations peoples and non- First Nations peoples could benefit
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The Government must declare that it accepts the treaties as binding. The treaties are historic, moral and legal obligations.
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First Nations and Canada's government agree that the Indian Act needs updating. But First Nations rejected the government's attempt in 2002.
