INDG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pow Wow, Northern Cree, Manitoba Act

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

Document Summary

It shows that indigenous peoples do in fact have relations and because of the long-standing dehumanization we do not see them as having facebook drama or relationships with other people. Some indigenous peoples in rural areas do not have access to internet so it may be belated for them to find facebook and it has come up in the last few years. Element of tradition that gets carried over because of the repetition. In spite of everything that has gone on, indigenous peoples are still here and still adapting to our ways of living. Trying to protect metis nation by setting out delegations. Recognition of political status, languages, guarantee of their land rights. Manitoba act: 28,000 square kilometres, ottawa agrees to protect educational rights, land rights and language rights. Section 31: conferred land rights on the children of half-breed heads of families. Every child had a guaranteed land right in the amount of 1. 4 million acres.