page_title: Timeline of First Nations history
section_title: 1400s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of First Nations history / 1400s
caption_attribution_description: Snippet of map showing Chippewa reservations in Wisconsin, compiled for congress by American Bureau of Ethnology Smithsonian Institution.
context_page_description: The history of First Nations is a prehistory and history of present-day Canada's peoples from the earliest times to the present with a focus on First Nations. The pre-history settlement of the Americas is subject of ongoing debate as First Nations oral history, combined with new methodologies and technologies used by archaeologists, linguists, and other researchers, produce new and sometimes conflicting, evidence. The 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People described four stages in Canadian history that overlap and occur at different times in different regions: 1 Pre-contact – Different Worlds – Contact; 2 Early Colonies; 3 Displacement and Assimilation; and 4 Renewal to Constitutional Entrenchment.
caption: An early map of Madeline Island, Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior
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