The Blanket Exercise Analysis

Although after participating in the blanket exercise I learned how far the Europeans were willing to go to eliminate First Nation people, from killing them with disease to putting them on reserves. From my understanding I believe the land was taken away from the Aboriginals and that many Aboriginal people sacrificed their lives to fight for justice and for their families. Also I learned that First Nations people’s lives were hard, they didn’t get the things we have today, they didn’t get to spend time with their families and were forced to go to residential schools away from their brothers and sisters and parents. During the blanket exercise I was told how the Europeans broke their promises and how aggressive they were when reducing reserved
land. One of the main factors that caught my attention was how many people there were and then how many there were at the end. From learning this it gave me the perspective of how many people died. It also taught me that the problems Aboriginals had could have been easily resolved, but no one like the government were willing to do so. For example, schools on reserves got two to three thousand dollars less per student and children were forcefully taken.