- Students will gain insights into the nature of the problems caused by the regional approach taken by British administrators.
- Students will have a better understanding of the legislative attempts to force assimilation on Indigenous Peoples in the nineteenth century.
- Students will understand the context of the Métis unrest that shook the country in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
- Students will have a better understanding of the growing nineteenth–century movement toward resistance across the country.
- Students will have a stronger sense of the unique issues confronting Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia in the second half of the nineteenth century.