Canada and the World
Current Events with a Canadian Perspective
Last update
16 April 2012
Native People
The history of Canada’s First Nations by date
from the Creation stories through to August 2010
Aboriginal Tuberculosis Epidemic
Substandard housing and widespread poverty
contribute to a very high incidence of
tuberculosis among First Nations people
In 1873 a battle occurred in southern
Saskatchewan among wolf hunters, whiskey
traders, cargo haulers, and Assinboine Indians
Canada’s first nations enjoy a privileged status
in that they pay no taxes to municipal,
provincial, or federal governments
Inquiry into Mistreatment of Aboriginals
More than a decade ago, in 1996, the federal Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples agreed that the mistreatment of Aboriginal people is the cause of many of the social problems Native communities have today