INDG 107.3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indian Register, Indian Act, Tuberculosis

• School: U of S
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 107.3
• Professor: Bonita Beatty

Document Summary

Recognized indg rights land and self-government nation to nation . Set up bureaucratic management of indian nations became wards of the state. Indian bands and regulations (elections, authority of band councils) A list of all the indian people and their names. People disenfranchised cease to be an indian with the stroke of a pen. Did not change until the charter of rights in 1942. Reserves and its political and economic management. Reserves are a policy under the indian act. Economic colonialism controls of your economics. Has been tinkered with, but not changed to any great extent. Not until 1939 they were recognized as indians under the indian act. Discriminatory indian status (women) (enfranchisement vs voting/citizenship); veterans benefits denied. 1920 mandatory for families to give up children to residential schools. Some residential schools more humane than others. 1951 and other minor no major reforms.