Aboriginal Treaties

Saskatchewan Curriculum Objectives

Social Studies 10
History 10
History 30

Grade 10 Objectives (Social Studies 10)

Core Concept: Economic Decision Making

Know that beliefs and values of a society will affect its social and political organization.

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Economic Development in Saskatchewan: During the 19th century, the Federal government made some fundamental decisions about the economy of the prairies and the future of the people there.
Look at government documents concerning future of Rupert's Land and the peoples there.

Grade 10 Objectives (History 10)
Objectives
Unit 1: Political Decision Making

Core Concept: Social Organizations

Know that humans establish various kinds of organizations as a means of systematically meeting their needs and wants.
Know that any group or organization must decide on some means of decision making that will allow it to function effectively.
Know that groups or organizations must have some way of resolving differences and making and enforcing conclusions so that a collective course of action can be carried out.

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World view and the decision making process: the Aboriginal and European world views.

Unit 4: Imperialism

Core Concept: Acculturation

Know that nation states are concerned about their ability to hold necessary hinterlands and to protect the transportation lines to those hinterlands.

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The use of national power to protect national self interest.
Imperialism in North America in the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

Grade 12 Objectives (History 30)
Unit 1: Relationships: People and Paradigms
Foundational Objective 1
Know that a worldview is a comprehensive viewpoint that explains the nature of reality, creates expectations, and provides meaning and purpose for people's lives

Core Concept: Paradigms

Know that the Europeans operated with a set of paradigms, concerning sovereignty, property, and equality of peoples and societies, that differed greatly from the paradigms of the First Nations.
Know that these paradigms influenced the perceptions and actions of both individuals and groups within European and First Nations societies.

Foundational Objective 2

Know that every society will evolve assumptions and practices that surround the key societal relationship between the peoples and the "land".

Core Concepts: Land

Know that First Nations assumptions about ownership of the land did not mirror those held by the colonizing Europeans.
Know that the Europeans viewed North America as being a vast reservoir of resources to be utilized by those willing to extend the effort and expend the costs of acquiring those resources.

Foundational Objective 3
Know that within every society, there will exist a contest among groups to gain influence over the societal decision-making processes.

The use of national power to protect national self interest.
Imperialism in North America in the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

Core Concepts: Decision Making

Know that the colonizing powers were determined to institute their decision-making paradigm on their colonies in North America.
Know that colonial decision making was the prerogative of the governing European power rather than either the residents of the colonies or the First Nations.

Foundational Objective 4
Know that within every society, there will exist a contest among groups to gain influence over the societal decision-making processes.

The use of national power to protect national self interest.
Imperialism in North America in the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

Core Concepts: Acculturation

Know that British colonial policies, directed towards French Canadians and the First Nations, fluctuated between attempts to assimilate those populations and attempts to accommodate them.

Unit 2: The Nineteenth Century: The Road to Democracy
Foundational Objective 1
Know that within societies, there exists a competition among interest groups for influence over the society's decision-making processes, and that those groups will vary in terms of their ability to influence those processes.

Core Concept: Interest Group

Know that the francophone and anglophone populations of Central Canada possessed the economic and political power to influence the political structure of the proposed new nation.

Core Concept: Federalism

Know that the Canadian federal system of government is one in which political decision making is constitutionally allocated to either the national government or to provincial governments.
Know that federalism balances the desire for overall unity with a desire to retain local or regional autonomy.
Know that establishment of provincial governments reflected the concern of the both the francophone population of Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces, that a single national government would be dominated by Central Canada and would not represent the interests and well-being of other regions and populations of the nation.

Core Concept: Decision Making

Know that the regions of Canada have varying degrees of political and economic influence over national decision making.
Know that the federal government did not involve the Aboriginal population and other residents of Rupert's Land in determining their opinions and needs.

Core Concept: Métis

Know that Canadian acquisition of the North West had consequences for the Métis people of that region.
Know that large-scale migration of Euro-Canadian settlers to the North West was seen by the Métis as a threat to their traditional economy and cultural identity.
Know that the Métis sought, through negotiations, recognition and protection of their rights and landholdings.
Know that provisions of the Métis Bill of Rights included:

that the territories must have the right to enter Canada's Confederation as a province;
that the people would have the right to send four members of Parliament to Ottawa;
that the Métis had the right to control their own local affairs;
that the Métis wanted French and English languages to be equal in the schools and law courts; and,
that the Métis wanted to keep their customs and their Métis way of life.

Know that the policies and actions of the Canadian government towards the Métis had a negative impact on the unity of the nation.

Core Concept: First Nations

Know that one of the goals of the Canadian government was to implement policies that would lead to assimilation of the First Nations who resided in the former Rupert's Land.
Know that the Canadian government planned to relocate the First Nation peoples to reserves and thereby make the land available for European settlers to establish an agricultural-based economy.

Core Concept: Treaties

Know that the Canadian government planned to acquire the lands of the Canadian West by negotiating treaties with the First Nations and that those treaties extinguished First Nations' land claims.
Know that the First Nations and the Canadian government held differing assumptions concerning the terms and meaning of the treaties.

Core Concept: Indian Act

Know that the Indian Act regulated most aspects of the lives of First Nation peoples.
Know that the Indian Act defined who was considered to be an "Indian."

Foundational Objective 3
Know that the history of the Canadian peoples has been greatly influenced by external forces and events.

Core Concept: External Influence
Related Content
The Search for Economic Well-being: The National Policy

The Canadian West and the Euro-Canadian Vision
Securing the Canadian West: New Canadians and Their Well-being
The Treaties and the Indian Act
Unrest in the West: Riel and National Unity

Unit 5: Challenges and Opportunities
Foundational Objective 1
Know that within the Canadian community, seeking of new relationships that satisfy the needs of an increasingly diverse society is proving to be a difficult process.

Core Concept: Assimilation

Know that through agencies such as the Department of Indian Affairs, the federal government established the goals and priorities of policies directed at Aboriginal people.
Know that the assimilation of Aboriginal peoples remained the desired option of government.