INDG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indian Register, Indian Act

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 2010
• Professor: Jennifer Adese

Document Summary

Indian act of 1876 is still in operation today. Continues to structure the way indigenous peoples live and build, bury their family, transmit property, statuses indians . Indian management under one law, widely regarded as an invasive and highly paternalist act (assume one group knows what is best for another group with their opinion) Act was created after canada was created in 1867 by overarching political control, control indians to practice their culture and traditions. First nations had no say about impositions about the government and the. Reverses the royal proclamation: game laws were enacted so they could not live in their traditional ways, cannot leave without them being ok with it. 1894- it was enforced to remove children from their homes to go to residential schools. Can choose where the reserves go and can relocate them if was deemed necessary to build railways or such things.