First Nations in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory

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Indigenous peoples collective historical population group

First Nations in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory were the Indigenous peoples of the vast Hudson’s Bay Company–controlled regions of what is now western and northern Canada, whose lands and rights were profoundly impacted by 19th-century British and Canadian expansion.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indigenous peoples collective ⓘ historical population group ⓘ
affectedBy	British colonial expansion in North America ⓘ Canadian Confederation NERFINISHED ⓘ Hudson's Bay Company land policies ⓘ Numbered Treaties NERFINISHED ⓘ decline of the fur trade ⓘ missionary activity ⓘ smallpox epidemics ⓘ transfer of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to Canada ⓘ
associatedWith	Hudson's Bay Company NERFINISHED ⓘ
economyLinkedTo	fur trade ⓘ
experienced	cultural and linguistic suppression ⓘ disruption of traditional economies ⓘ imposition of Canadian Indian Act policies ⓘ imposition of reserve system ⓘ loss of traditional lands ⓘ
hadPoliticalRelationsWith	British Crown representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ Dominion of Canada officials ⓘ Hudson's Bay Company officials NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalSignificance	central to the development of the Canadian West ⓘ
includes	Assiniboine peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Blackfoot Confederacy NERFINISHED ⓘ Cree peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Dakota (Sioux) groups in the region ⓘ Dene peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Ojibwe peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Saulteaux peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ various Athabaskan-speaking nations ⓘ
languageFamilies	Algonquian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Athabaskan (Dene) languages ⓘ Siouan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
laterImpactedBy	Christian missionary conversion efforts ⓘ
locatedIn	North-Western Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Rupert's Land NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay	northern Canada ⓘ western Canada ⓘ
practiced	fishing ⓘ gathering of wild plants ⓘ subsistence hunting ⓘ trapping ⓘ
recognizedAs	First Nations under Canadian law in many cases ⓘ
religions	Indigenous spiritual traditions ⓘ
subjectTo	Numbered Treaties 1–11 NERFINISHED ⓘ
timePeriod	19th century ⓘ fur trade era ⓘ pre-contact era ⓘ
tradedWith	Hudson's Bay Company trading posts ⓘ North West Company (before its merger with HBC) NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Rupert's Land Act 1868 → affectedIndigenousPeoples → First Nations in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory ⓘ