ENGLISH 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indian Register, Half-Breed, Indian Act
16 Apr 2017
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The police can arrest you based on your race. A group becomes a group when they are legislated a certain way. Creates an apparatus that constructs the racial identity as being real when there are legislations. Canadians are sanctioned to be ignorant towards these policies. Elaborates the many policies that govern who indigenous people are and what they can do. Policies that govern who has indigenous status and who does not. If indigenous people wanted to build an economy by having their own farm or store they are unable to move out of their reserves without a pass, therefore they are restricted. These policies construct these environments on the reserve which make the reserve"s economies poor and impoverish. Indigenous people were being infantilized b/c they are being policed by these policies. The residential schools that tried to instill european values and get rid of indian culture.
