POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Quebec Agreement, Constitution Act, 1982, Charlottetown Accord
23 Jan 2017
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Have lived in north america for 20,000 years. Self-sufficient, self-governing made decisions based off of consensus women and elders were important. Shared use of land no private ownership preservation. These powers took the aboriginal land because of terra nullius they did not consider the. Aboriginals to be the owners of the land: europeans occupied aboriginal land signed treaties. 3 main governance options that could be chosen to address the conditions of aboriginal life in. Integration and assimilation to non-aboriginal society: 2. Return to aboriginal self-governance, focused on reserves: 3. 2006 census: 1. 2 million aboriginals based off identity (3. 8% of population, 1. 7 aboriginals based off ancestry (5. 5% of population) First nations north american indians: 2. Metis mix between first nations and french settlers: 3. Status indian officially recognized by the government as an indian: 825,000 people, split between on reserve and off reserve. Non-status indian not recognized by the government as an indian.
