Aboriginal reserves date back to the early 17th century, when Catholic missionaries introduced them to New France in order to convert the natives to Catholicism. To this day, hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people continue to live in poor conditions on reserves across Canada. Through the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Indigenous peoples of Canada were granted a significant, but unspecified, area of ​​land that is now owned by many private and public owners. Yet today, indigenous people are in constant conflict with the government over whose lands they also have rights to, continuing a version of historical ignorance and