SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Patrilineality, Indian Register, Indian Act

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Nayrouz Abu Hatoum

Document Summary

Canadian federal law that governs indian status, bands, and indian reserves. It has been highly invasive and paternalistic, as it authorizes canadian federal gov"t to regular and administer the affairs and day-to-day lives of registered. Can lose status if you marry outside of the indigenous race. Developed over time through separate pieces of colonial legislation. Had control over the rights of indians to practice their culture and traditions. Enabled the gov"t to determine the land base of these groups in the form of reserve. De nes who quali es as indian in the form of indian status. Allowed the canadian government to regulate the lives of indigenous people. Intended to terminate their culture, social economical and political distinctive of the aboriginal people. The roots of the indian act go back to the earlier days of colonial encounters between europeans and indigenous people in canada. British sought a way its imperial positions by structuring formal, constitution .