DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lee Maracle, Omnibus Bill, Drum Circle

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 100
• Professor: Scott Rutherford

Document Summary

Keywords and concepts: protest movements: idle no more and missing and murdered indigenous women, red power 1960s, treaties, truth and reconciliation commission, development, kent monkman. Increased demand for recognition of collective rights based on indigenous identity. The indian act: evolving document, challenged over time, reforms to the indian act in 1951 (some of the restrictions are being reduced) because. Aboriginal soldiers return from the war (aboriginals gave up their indian status to fight in the war) Bill c31 and gender 1985(indian act restricted indigenous women to marry non indigenous, the women would lose their status) the bill only worked for one generation to go back and claim their indigenous identity. Trudeau white paper 1969 (attempt to get rid of the indian act) and red power resistance. Indigenous people appose getting rid of the indian act as it folds everyone into a blank canadian citizen ship.