Indigenous Realities and Resistance · 1870-1914
Indigenous Sovereignty and Petitions
Focusing on the diplomatic efforts by Indigenous leaders to protect their lands and rights through petitions to the Crown.
Key Questions
- 1How did leaders like Deskaheh (Levi General) take the message of sovereignty to the world stage?
- 2What were the goals of the early Allied Tribes of British Columbia?
- 3How did the Canadian government respond to Indigenous political organizing?
Ontario Curriculum Expectations
ON: History: Creating Canada, 1850–1890 - Grade 8ON: History: Canada, 1890–1914: A Changing Society - Grade 8
Grade: Grade 8
Subject: History & Geography
Unit: Indigenous Realities and Resistance
Period: 1870-1914
Suggested Methodologies
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