INDIGST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gradual Civilization Act, Indian Health Service, Indian Register

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1A03
• Professor: Vanessa Watts

Document Summary

Became a policy in about the 1840s. A pathway of status indians, to become canadians. Full civilization, in order to reach that, they had to come in contact w/ individual property rights. The reserves prevented liberalisms, in term of property rights, from taking full effect. *you"d be given citizenship if you relinquish indian status. Indians forms of government systems are technically abolished - approx. Replace them w/ elected systems of gov. Some nations still have indig. systems, but the federal gov. does not meet with them. As this is being abolished, indian agents were monitoring reserves and what was happening on reserves. (indian agents are hired by the dep. of indian affairs) Status indians were unable to vote in canadian elections without losing their indian status enfranchising. Indig. people could not be conscripted into war. However, there were over 7000 status indians who enlisted. When soldiers returned home, they found that they were enfranchised and could not return to reserves.