on after, a Royal Proclamation was issued which set the boundaries of Quebec and the guidelines of conduct towards Aboriginals. This proclamation stated that England would have sovereignty over the Indians and it claim also take away a large amount of Indian land for its European settlers. This gave way to more legislation that would be passed against the Aboriginal peoples.
             The Constitution Act in 1867 went on to provide the Canadian government with rule over Indian lands and lands reserved for Indians. This, in turn, made way for the Indian Act, which would be the basis for Canada's Indian policy. This policy was of assimilation until the 1960s and had four components: "conversion to Christianity; removal of land by treaty and confinement to reservations; education of Indian children in residential, Christian schools; and introduction of Western-style self-government to the Indians as temporary locations, pending assimilation" (10). Some Indians attempted to rebel against these suppressions, but overall they were too weakly organized to accomplish a successful protest. Not until 1969 was the Indian Ac
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