Part one of term paper
“By the end of the Victorian period hardly a people remained on the face of the earth whose social structure, culture, and basic way of life had not been more or less violently disrupted.” -Cell, ‘Imperial Conscience’ When the first explorers reported that they had reached the Pacific coast, they mentioned that there were inhabi ...

Part two of term paper
... resulted in assimilation. One conclusion that white men made was that the Natives would eventually annihilate themselves because they were not a self-sufficient nation. This assumption has proved to be faulty, in that through all the turmoil that the Aboriginals of British Columbia have suffered through racism, reserve systems, residential schools, and prohibition of practicing their cultural traditions, they have survived and in fact, have prospered and continue to prosper in the present ...