INDG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Two Row Wampum Treaty, Great Peacemaker, Boundary Marker

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 1000
• Professor: simon Brascoupe

Document Summary

Indg 1000 l10 identtiy issues part i who is indian and who is not, and it is only by retaining this power to include some and exclude others that indian status has any meaning. The primary function of indian status is a boundary marker a clear indicator of. Women responsible for determining citizenship (cid:494)mother culture(cid:495) Full members of their adoptive social communities. Indigenous nations survived almost only because of traditional mother- 1857: act to encourage the gradual civilization of the indian tribes (indian. 1867: british north america act from protection to coercion responsibility of federal government consolidates all laws relating to. 1889: 1911 lands and rights to lands diminished. 1925: overthrow of chiefs, outlawed potlatch, sundance, great law of peace other forms of traditional governance made illegal. Band councils put in place (diffusion of innovations) No control of resources, no control of own children. Indian agent had power of peace officer (police)