SOCI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, Stoney Trail, Ipperwash Crisis
23 Sep 2017
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Changing face of immigrants: canada has high share of foreign born immigrants, encourage immigrants to come to canada to increase population, filling gap of labor, aboriginal had never declared war, the french did. Aboriginals never agreed to this, provide to determine who is a person, indian not being a person, some with women not considering to be a person, therefore not being allowed to vote. Indian affairs control movement of reserves, had almost total control of reserves for almost everything, needed perm to do anything within the reserves. Created bands (this determine by government) gave them rights to vote in town councils, took away powers from elders (indians), living on reserve land have to have id cards. Amendment to indian act: cultural ceremonies banned in 1884, expropriate land when needed in 1911 sometimes violate other treaties. 2: power to lease out land (reserves) in 1918, can give land to non-
