Why Native Peoples Are Important To Canada

Native Peoples are synonymous with Canada. They inhabited this great nation when Christopher Columbus landed in North America in 1492 and even when the Vikings visited it centuries earlier. They are as much a part of this country as the trees that grow in our forests and the water that runs through our rivers. They are a vital to this country as the soil that we all walk on. Their way of life is, in many …

…the Native Peoples. They were a race of peoples that have now been forced to live on reservations separate from the mainstream population. They had a way of living that was in many ways vastly superior to our own. We must remember them and respect them for the kind of life that they used to lead and we should learn from them. They are very important to our history and to every single Canadian citizen.