Write a short argumentative essay based on a close reading of two short primary sources that provided in two separate files. (White Paper and Red paper.)
Goal: to better understand the different policies proposed by both the Government of Canada and Indigenous peoples themselves with regard to Indigenous-Canadian relations in the late 1960s and early 1970s
• In other words, why and how did the Canadian government seek to change Indigenous-Canadian relations, how did
Indigenous peoples react to this proposal, and what sort of counterproposal did they offer?
– Answer to these questions should act as your THESIS STATEMENT
• The goal therefore not to argue for or against one proposal or another, but to present the two sides of the conversation/ argument and explain why Indigenous peoples did not accept the White Paper.
1000 words or 4 pages, 12 pt New Roman, 1-inch margin and double spaced.
SAMPLE CITATIONS:
Government of Canada, Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy, 1969, in Michel Ducharme, Damien-Claude Bélanger, and J.M. Bumsted, eds., Interpreting Canada’s Past: A Post-Confederation Reader, 5th edition (Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2017 [1969]), 447.
Indian Chiefs of Alberta, Citizens Plus, in Michel Ducharme, Damien-Claude Bélanger, and J.M. Bumsted, eds., Interpreting Canada’s Past: A Post-Confederation Reader, 5th edition (Don Mills, ON Oxford University Press, 2017 [1970]), 452.