Timeline of First Nations history
[1] The 1996 Report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People described four stages in Canadian history that overlap and occur at different times in different regions: 1) Pre-contact – Different Worlds – Contact; 2) Early Colonies (1500–1763); 3) Displacement and Assimilation (1764–1969); and 4) Renewal to Constitutional Entrenchment (2018).
The ancestral origins of caribou prior to the last glaciation (Wisconsin), which occurred approximately 80,000 to 10,000 years ago, are not well understood, however, during the last glaciation it is known that caribou were abundant and distributed in non-glaciated refugia both north and south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.is characterized by archaeological complexes containing stone projectile points of triangular, fluted, lanceolate, or stemmed forms, presumably used with throwing and stabbing spears.
At least five cultural complexes occur in Alberta, including Clovis and its derivatives, Windust, Cascade, Cody, and Plains-Mountain.
These groups appear to have been primarily big-game hunters who often moved over vast areas during their annual rounds while visiting preferred resources.
[119] By order-in-council dated 23 June 1870,[120] the British government admitted Rupert's Land to Canada through the Constitution Act, 1867,[121] effective 15 July 1870, conditional on the making of treaties with the sovereign indigenous nations providing consent to the Queen.
