Peace and friendship treaties 1725-1779
Who were the first to live in what we now know as the Maritimes?
Who are the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy or the Abenaki people?
Who was William Benjamin?
What is a fur trader/person who understood the First Nations language?
True or false?
The Hudson’s Bay Company DIDN'T pay much attention to the First Nations living on the south end of Vancouver Island when it set up a colony there in 1849.
What is true?
What are the Numbered Treaties and when were they created?
What is a Treaty?
What is an agreement used to make peace?
In what is now southern Ontario, how many Treaties did the British establish?
What is the number 15?
Why did the British choose William Benjamin?
What is to lead Treaty talks?
Who payed attention? to the First Nations living on the south end of Vancouver Island when it set up a colony there in 1849.
Who is HBC governor, James Douglas?
Why did the Canadian Government want to make these treaties?
What is to gain land for settlement, mining, and farming?
True or false?
First Nations people did not have treaties with each other before the Europeans came.
What is false?
For the Mi'kmaq in particular, what were the Treaties seen as?
What is creating new family relationships with newcomers?
What did the First Nations recieve?
What are annuties, and their right to hunt and fish throughout the territory?
Who oversaw 14 Treaties that protected First Nations village sites and rights to hunt and fish?
Who is James Douglas?
Where was Rupert's Land located?
What is Alberta to Hudson Bay?
What were the First Nations taught about the land
What is to respect it and take care of it so everything could benefit?
True or false?
Was it important for the British to have a good relationship with the First Nations people?
What is True?
What were the British able to do with the land?
What is they were able to settle the land and use it for mining, lumber and more?
According to the Hudson's Bay Company, what did those nations give up ownership when they made the Treaties?
What is ownership of their land?
What did the First Nations think they were agreeing to?
What is to share the land in exchange for benefits and rights?
For First Nations people, who is the land a gift from?
Who is the creator?
What did the First Nations teach the European newcomers?
What is hunting, fishing and how to survive?
What did the Robinson treaties become?
What is the model for agreements that would follow in other parts of the country.
What did the First Nations not know that they would lose when signing the Treaty?
What is losing land?
What was the difference between how the government saw the Treaties VS the First Nations?
What is the government saw the treaty as giving up the land while the First Nations saw sharing it?
Why did misunderstandings happen between First Nations and Europeans?
What is having different ideas about land and ownership?