GGR246H1 Lecture 7: Canada's Native People - Lecture 7 -
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Pre-confederation y french/native relations (the french were good to natives, and they were heavily depended on native societies, and their numbers were equal to native, their relationship changed when the. Government/native relations y misunderstandings of treaty process (particularly from native people, they thought they were sharing the land, and not giving up the ownership. Politicization of native issues post 1970s ( a new group of indians emerge, who have been exposed to. First case that was brought, which helped other cases to come along) They needed to refer to many rivers and so on. The problem was, native people lived in the regions were development was taking place; they managed to internationalize this by connecting to all the other natives around the world. Second thing was that, they connected to environment groups, which became important. Supreme court said we are already ruled on this, and the said yes they have the right to sell what they catch.
