INDIGST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: British Subject, Multiple Choice, Sodo
15 Oct 2017
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A royal proclamation is decreed by king george - 1763. Essentially the proclamation says that britain won"t interfere with indigenous government or indigenous land. The proclamation does refer to indigenous people as people who live under [british] protection - the idea of colonialism. Some say that this proclamation is the rst de nitive legal agreement between the settlers and the indigenous people. The crown bene tted from military alliances with indigenous people: determine land title. This set up guidelines on who could be what and where: encourage westward expansion. They needed to show that to europe that canada was worth investing in. The hoping for the building of canadian paci c railway. Day to day operations for indigenous people was with the secretary of war. With the expansion of the west, you saw indigenous communities being uprooted. The need for agreements between the government and indigenous people severely diminished.
