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