HISTORY 2TT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Mercury Poisoning, Sovereign People
17 Mar 2017
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Citizen status: want indian land to be given back to then and acquire land titles. The ownership of lands would be under continuous review for the transferring of control: repeal indian act (1876, to argue against this right is to argue for discrimination, isolation, and separation. Red paper: worried about taxation on their land, that the treaties were against land removal - individual properties, wanted to review the white paper in detail before proposing a formal rebuttal. !1: the white paper wanted to promote indian culture in canada, but wanted the people to be equal under law, but it is contradicting the fact that they wanted to promote the culture, but the people to assimilate. Being indian before being canadian: d. How were indigenous women living in toronto able to resist assimilation: women organized clubs that continued native traditions, maintaining a connection between the. Native identity, pride and strength within an urban context.
