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Views from a Different Perspective
The Aboriginal people of the plains have roamed on the Plains beginning at least 10,000 years ago. From 1730 – 1870, the arrival of the Europeans brought the First Nations into contact with settlements in Eastern Canada. Aboriginal people played an essential role in the fur trade, which also dramatically altered their way of life. In 1870, the Hudson’s Bay Company sold vast amounts of land to the Canadian government in what was one of the largest land sales in history. The arrival of the Europeans cause the Indigenous people to lose most of their land and their primary source of food, buffalo was almost completely eliminated. The indigenous population was decimated due to smallpox, famine, denial of provisions, and forced relocation. (Brasser)
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