After Eaglesham declared Canada's independence, he was quick to address concerns raised by the Aboriginals of Canada. Many of their treaties were technically with the British Crown, and not the Canadian government directly. Eaglesham's government assured them that the treaties would be re-signed, and even renegotiated, in some cases, to right past wrongs.
The Eaglesham government was true to its word, and rewrote many of the treaties - without any input from the people they would apply to. Overnight, reservations across Canada found themselves without police, emergency services, or any help from their country at all. Many did not survive, with inhabitants abandoning them for cities or other communities, or dissolving in violence, but in others, a new sense of community bloomed.
Eaglesham had lost the native population of Canada overnight, and they, in turn, abandoned him.
Around a hundred reservations managed to form new, stable communities. As their populations swelled as others joined them, they took back land they had always maintained was theirs, they fortified, and they, as so much of the country began to do, declared their independence.
By 1995, most of the Aboriginal population of Canada either lives in these new, independent nations, or as part of the rest of the population in whichever Canadian nation they found themselves in during separation. Those that live in the independent nations, the First Nations, mostly just want to be left alone, even by each other, but they will defend themselves if provoked.
Still, there are those that range further afield, fighting a battle the rest of Canada cannot see, stalking the things that have begun to gnaw at the edges of reality. These small bands are joined in their quest by those that have seen what they have seen, and form the front line against the emergent threat of the truly weird in Canada.
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