First nations and Canada and Natives and United States?

Question

Ok I have to write an essay about the difference between the two. Difference like how they got treated and how they lived.

(First Nations vs Natives)

Answer 1

I'm really more familiar with the story in Canada. I wouldn't want to pronounce myself on what happened in the United States. I know of Indian wars, but besides that, not much. I'll give you the story in Canada and somebody can fill in the blanks with the U.S. story.

In Canada, the French tended to ally themselves with the Indians, while the English tended to evict and conquer them. That's not because French settlers were more moral, but simply because there were less of them and they couldn't really afford to face both the English and the Indians. When war broke out (as it did several times between France and England) the colonies got embroilled in it. The French would ally themselves with the Algonquins (Generally) and the English with the Iroquois. After the French part of Canada was conquered, Indians were (and had been before) mostly used as tradesmen. The Hudson Bay Company (a British corporation) would hire them to hunt down furs, a tradition started by the French, but continued more efficiently bythe more numerous, and more organized English.
Indians in Canada helped fend off the forces of a young United States to the south and were recognized for their efforts in the 1867 Canadian constitution as one of the three founding peoples of Canada (The others being the French and the English).
In reality, however, the story is not as politically correct. Just like in the United States, there were several cases of displacement, of Indians being given disease on purpose, but little in the matter of all out Indian wars like the U.S. experienced.
Treaties gave Canadian Indian reservation land. But these were always subject to particular measures and the Indians of today complain they have never been equal citizens. (In fact, the Apartheid system in South Africa was partly modelled after the Canadian reserves system). Today, a lot of reservations suffer problems of high unemployment, alcoholism, drug abuse, poor sanitation and health care, etc..

Answer 2

try wikipedia