Legal documents outlining agreements between nations
What are treaties?
100
Europe
Where did most settlers come from?
100
Where the settlers used to live.
What are "Homesteads"?
100
Indian Status
What did the Indian Act create?
100
Canadian Law which aimed settlement and set rules of how to use prairies land.
What was the Dominion Land Act?
200
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
Where the treaties signed?
200
Manitoba
Where did most of the settlers move to?
200
Tents were only good for the summer not for the prairie summer.
Why couldn't the settlers use tents for shelter?
200
Wards of the State
What did the Aboriginals become after they sold their land?
200
The Metis.
Who felt that they weren't treated fairly?
300
The disappearance of the Buffalo, Increasing Settlement, Sickness and Disease.
Why did the aboriginals sign the treaties?
300
To expand the region.
Why did the government want the settlers to come?
300
Prairie Sod
What type of wood did the settlers use?
300
1876
What year was the Indian Act established?
300
The Homestead Act.
What was the Dominion Land Act also called?
400
Aboriginals gave up their land to government.
What changes did the treaties bring?
400
1870.
When did the population of settlers increase?
400
They were cheap.
What was the greatest appeal of sod buildings?
400
FREE POINT!
You picked the free-point box.
400
Some sections were sold or rented, whereas others were Homesteads.
How was the land distribution?
500
Half of Canada
How much of Canada’s Aboriginals did not have treaties?
500
Mice and insects came along with the sod, if it rained outside all day, the roof became so full of water that it rained two days inside, there are almost no windows in the building.
What problems did the settlers encounter?
500
Half-Breed
Which Indians weren't entitled to the Indian Status?