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Iroquois sign lasting peace with New France

The Mandan Indians west of the Great Lakes begin to trade in horses descended from those brought to Texas by the Spanish. Itinerant Assiniboine Indians bring them from Mandan settlements to their own territories southwest of Lake Winnipeg.

Britain wins the Seven Years War and gains rights to most of the French colonies in North America. The Proclamation states that all lands in British North America are to be negotiated through a treaty process with the indigenous peoples.

After helping the British during the American Revolution, the Iroquois are given two land grants. Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) settles his followers at the Six Nations Reserve, near Brantford.

Métis and a few Indians Massacre Selkirk settlers at Seven Oaks (Winnipeg). The event is set up by the NWTC over the British HBC encroaching on their territory.

Louis Riel and the Metis occupy Fort Garry exerting their rights to the area and the Red River Rebellion has begun. Riel will later establish a legal provisional government in the area, with himself as the leader. Aggressive Colonial settlers in the area are taken prisoner. One of the settlers is tried and executed by the provisional government. As a result PM Macdonald dispatches the army and Riel flees to the U.S..

The Manitoba Act is passed, making the Red River Area a province known as Manitoba. Metis are granted scrip in the form of land ownership. A voucher with a land or dollar value attached, but are forced out of Red River. Manitoba is known as the "postage stamp" province as a result of its small size.
Riel forced to flee as a result of the Thomas Scott incident does not get to live in the province he created.

The first five numbered treaties deal with native lands in northwestern Ontario and what is now southern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan and southern Alberta

American whisky traders kill fifty-six Assiniboine in the Cypress Hills of the southern Prairies. The North-West Mounted Police (later the RCMP) is formed to keep order in the new Canadian territories.

Louis Riel is elected as an MP for Manitoba, but cannot take the seat as he will be arrested if he re-enters Canada.

The Indian Act is passed, essentially extinguishing any remaining self-government for natives and making them wards of the federal government.

Treaty No.7 cedes the last big section of Prairie land to the government of Canada

The first residential schools open. Their painful legacy would stretch to today.

After migrating west after the Red River Rebellion, the Metis are once again in an area that colonial Canada wants to expand into. The Metis retrieve Louis Riel to advocate for them. This time Canada has the railway to transport the army and the Metis and other Indigenous peoples are in armed conflict with the colonial government on Canada. The rebellion ends in the capture and execution of Riel and the imprisonment of indigenous leaders.