Unit 4

After Confederation - Part 2

Skill Builders Targets

Activity




Document: Numbered Treaties

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  1. Complete Questions 1 to 5 in the lesson summary as you read the assigned textbook pages of this lesson.

  2. Read pages 269 to 271 of the textbook.
      • The First Nations and Métis were the first to feel the effects of new settlements in the West.
      • In the late 1800s, the buffalo hunt and fur trade were ending and much of the land was being turned into farms.
      • The First Nations and the federal government tried to resolve their issues through the treaty process.
      • First Nations in Western Canada reached 11 settlements called Numbered Treaties with the Canadian government between 1871 and 1921.

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