Treatment of Aboriginal Canadians

• 1. Canadian government makes decisions for Indigenous peoples through Indian Affairs
  2. Not allowed to vote in Canadian Elections
• • Government policies continued to encourage assimilation into Canadian Society
  • process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially. 
  • Encouraged to forget their customs, language, and lifestyles
• Schools

  • Missionaries preached ‘Christianity’ in residential schools
  • Indigenous beliefs were ridiculed and suppressed
  • Students forgot their language and taught to be ashamed of their past
• Superintendent-general: in charge of welfare of Indigenous peoples

  F.O. Loft: an Ontario Mohawk chief and veteran of World War 1