The prospectors were destructive to the first nations (they damaged land to find gold).
Sometimes they burned forest areas just to find gold- bearing rock.
Sometimes chemicals used, got into the water systems (they didn't tell the first nations, because they didn't care how it would affect them)
Prospectors had not signed a treaty with the first nations about living with them, and the first nations had issues with the prospectors damaging their society, and told the government
Sometimes they burned forest areas just to find gold- bearing rock.
Sometimes chemicals used, got into the water systems (they didn't tell the first nations, because they didn't care how it would affect them)
Prospectors had not signed a treaty with the first nations about living with them, and the first nations had issues with the prospectors damaging their society, and told the government