HIST261 Lecture Notes - Abeyance, Harold Cardinal, United Nations Human Rights Committee
28 Mar 2014
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First nations peoples and the post war period. Churches began in this period to recognise that the old policy for assimilating first. Nations peoples (hereafter fnp) of the bible and the plough was not working. Additionally the federal government was concerned about the rising costs of residential schools. Initially the federal government had believed that the fnp were in the process of dying off but that was not the case. In fact the numbers of fnp was beginning to swell. The federal government was also concerned about the fact the fnp had begun to organize themselves much like the working class had decades earlier. The political organization of fnp in emerged in bc where their population was larger and had not been part of the numbered treaties. The main issues at hand were land rights and disputes over reserve allocation and how the west coast fnp had been largely unincorporated into the national treaty system.
