Question 5 of 33
When is National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated?
This is also the summer solstice.
The logical reason for forging alliances between European and Aboriginal nationsnations from the time of first contact was discussed previously. It required making friends and maintaining good neighbourly relations. However, things took a turn for the worse for First NationsA group sharing a common culture, history and language.First Nations between 1820 and 1840. A term that came into common usage in the 1970s to replace the word “Indian,” which some people found offensive. Among its uses, the term refers to the Status, Non-Status and Treaty Indians of Canada. Some Aboriginal peoples have replaced the word “Band” in the name of their community with the term “First Nation,” respecting their distinct language, culture, heritage and systems of knowledge. Although “First Nation” is widely used, it has no legal definition.
Thus, a person might say that they’re from the Naskapi First Nation of Kawawachikamach, or the Atikamekw First Nation of Manawan, or the Mohawk First Nation of Akwesasne, etc., identifying both the nation to which they belong and their place of origin or residence.
No longer seeing them as strategic allies, but rather as a potential obstacle to settlement and development – “a nuisance” – the colonial authorities undertook a vast project to get rid of First Nations through assimilation. The Inuit, on the other hand, were for a long time ignored by the colonial authorities. Living in remote and isolated locations, they were not affected by the same waves of settlement or, until recently, large-scale development projects as First Nations.
Photo credit: Gustave Bédard, Archives nationales du Québec, Québec City
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