In the early 1960’s America was all about civil rights movements and the treatments of all individual’s, equality. Which finally made Canada question its treatment towards aboriginal people. The way they came across was at first logical interviews and questions directly to First nations people across Canada. the final product was a paternalistic demand of hierarchy which did not respect aboriginal rights or treaty agreements what so ever. Aboriginal people of Canada usually are required to question power and resist mistreatment instead being treated fairly.
The history of First nations people in Canada had always been a redundant cycle of on going decisions trying to be made without negotiations. For decades’ rules and regulations have sought out for First nations to follow without hesitation or questions. The legislation of The ‘White Paper’ or ‘Citizen plus’ was created to try and prepare the on going issues and high mortality rate in Aboriginal peoples across Canada. Pierre Truedue introduced the ‘White paper’ after an
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All reserve (crown land) would turn into private property where land tax would have to be paid with the little land all First Nations people are left with. All benefits would be lost that were once promised. Indian affairs would be on its way to extinction within the fiver year period after the legislation would pass. It scared many aboriginal people because of the lack of jobs and discrimination towards Native people. An Interview from Rose Charlie she describes “The discrimination towards my people is so great the only way I could get a job is if I say I am Hawaiian how does the government expect us to assimilate us when we can’t even find jobs, it will not fix anything” (may, 2001). The job problem was just to tip of the ice burg to how much problems the paper could