boriginal communities, monitor activities and to influence the aboriginal people by insisting upon assimilations via the Indian Act and other policies of government. Inclusion of aboriginal people never occurred at anytime during or after Confederation formation, nor where they consulted about concerns or issue in the matter. There was no consideration given to their future within the new-formed federation in any public or discussions but were determined unilaterally. Sir John A Macdonald informed parliament that the goal would be "to do away with tribal systems and assimilate the Indian people in all aspects with the inhabitants of the Dominion."
             Rather ironically it seemed that these newcomers felt it their obligation to care for and change the original habitants of this newfound nations. Alexander Morris, a government negotiator prayed this prayer, "Let us have Christianity and civilization among the Indian tribes...let us have a wise and paternal government...doing its utmost to help and elevate the Indian population, who have been cast upon our care...and Canada will be enabled to feel, that in a truly patriotic spirit, our country has done its duty to the red men...".
             Aboriginal peoples have had to deal with a great number of challenges. Challenges that were generally initiated by the arrival of Europeans to what is presently considered North America, and by the growth and development of Canadian religious, economic, political, and social systems. Frank Cassidy explained in his article, Troubled Hearts: Indigenous Peoples and the Crown in Canada, "the process of colonization unfolded, a sustained effort was made to impose, at first, French and British and then Canadian institutions on indigenous peoples,". Over the years, society assumed that Aboriginal peoples would eventually be engrossed into Canadian society and would in time adopt its culture and values. Attempts to impose unknown tradition...