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IMPORTANT AND UNIMPORTANT EVENTS<br />
(BLACKLINE MASTER #2)<br />
In 1867 the Indian Act was passed.<br />
Native Children went to school where they<br />
learned about “Dick and Jane”.<br />
Haudenosaunee people call themselves<br />
Onkwehonwe.<br />
In the mid 1900’s the government wanted<br />
to reduce the number of First Nation, Métis,<br />
and Inuit people in Canada.<br />
The government outlawed traditional ceremonies<br />
and First Nation, Métis and Inuit people<br />
were imprisoned for practicing their ways.<br />
The relationship that is meant to be maintained<br />
between nature and humans is based<br />
on mutual respect and harmony.<br />
The federal government had a long standing<br />
policy of sending First Nation, Métis, and<br />
Inuit children to <strong>Residential</strong> Schools.<br />
Forty years ago First Nation, Métis and Inuit<br />
people tried to recover their neha.<br />
The Two Row Wampum agreement was<br />
set out between the Onkwehonwe and the<br />
Dutch.<br />
People are gradually remembering what their<br />
parents and grandparents had told them<br />
about Onkwehonwe-neha.<br />
In 1946, Ontario revised the Education Act<br />
so that all children would attend provincially<br />
recognized schools.<br />
Everything in life was provided with Original<br />
Instructions.<br />
Elders are starting to lose the traditional<br />
knowledge of their First Nation, Métis, and<br />
Inuit people.<br />
Human beings are the only form of life that<br />
has strayed from the Original Instructions.<br />
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