HLTH102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Potlatch, Indian Register, Indian Act
19 Apr 2019
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The state of aboriginal health is a national embarrassment and leadership is needed now more than ever. - dr. Talking about them as one nation is very misleading. Colonists came to bring a better life. They brought war over land and attempted to assimilate the indigenous peoples. The federal law that governs in matters pertaining to indian status, nads, and indian reserves. Authority has ranged from overarching political control, such as imposing governing structures on aboriginal communities in the form of band councils, to control over the rights of indians to practice their culture and traditions. Regulates and administers affairs registered indigenous people. Government dictates how indigenous people live their lives. The indian act is a part of a long history of assimilation that intended to terminate the cultural, social, economic, and political distinctiveness of aboriginal peoples by absorbing them into mainstream canadian life and values.
