EVSC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Controlled Burn, Wild Rice, Indian Act
24 Apr 2018
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Widespread agricultural production that is able to sustain the economy. Three sister - corn beans and squash. A lot of coups would practice this cultivation of these crops. Common use of re to enhance wildlife habitat - moose and small animals for trapping - also for plant growth. Agricultural opportunities were very limited even on a small scale. With the shift in climate there was a shift in economic production. Aboriginal groups moved from land cultivation from the three sister to hunting to a steady protein supply. Europeans came in at the end of the ice age where the aboriginal people were nomadic and following the bison so there was a misconception that they weren"t hunter and gatherers because of the climate. A federal policy was introduced to x the problem of indians". Absorb them into the canadian population, no treaties, everyone would be the same, assimilation. Indian act and treaties were important in assimilation into the canadian population.
