WMGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Indian Register, Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, Complete Control
30 Sep 2016
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To fight against the discriminatory aspects of the indian act, she founded equal rights for indian women in 1967. She was the first woman to be reinstated with indian status after the passage of bill c-31 in 1986. 1857: gradual civilization act: voluntary, turning indians into real canadian citizens". Band membership and status as would any children . Last decades of the 18th century police force of the federal government was created to put down the indian threat". Direct efforts of the federal government to impose colonial control. Key: the introduction of the indian act. Our indian legislation generally rests on the principle, that the aborigines are to be kept in a condition of tutelage and treated as wards or children of the state . Heart of the indian act: assumption that indigenous peoples are inferior, and if left in their natural state they would not be able to take care of themselves.
