2. • To reduce violence, make way for “progress”, and help
civilize the Indian's, the federal government confined
Indian's to small reservations in remote areas
• Railroads headed the invasion of farmers, miners, and
merchants are what pressured governments to dispossess
Indians
• On American reservations and Canadian Reserves,
Missionaries and Educators attempted to wean natives off
tribal practices
• Governments also experiment with programs that offered
land to Indian families in exchange for adopting
citizenship and renouncing tribal rights.
3. Canada VS U.S.
Differences
• US experienced more violent collision of people
• Americas rapid expansion to pacific was supported by national
policies committed to moving Indian's to the side
• The Nations pursued also two ethnic policies
• Americans made no space for mixed peoples, treating them as
who they lived with: Indians, Mexicans, and Whites.
• Canada, for example, saw a group like the French Indian Métis
as their own distinct people and accorded them their own
separate rights
• The Difference? Due to American's earlier constant struggle
with Black & White Dichotomy, they were almost taught to
discourage mix-race classifying
4. Similarities
• Both nations used education (boarding schools) to
wean children and young people from their cultures
• Churches and Missionaries were highly involved,
and churches in Canada operated many Indian
schools
• Neither government would accept communal land
use patterns, or protect enough land for tribal people
to name possibility for success of livestock
