DCC 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Inuit, Indian Register
Exam review !
sec Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 provides that the federal government has the
legislative jurisdiction for "Indians and lands reserved for the Indians."!
what does this authority enable the gov to do!
-take control of reserves !
-control education !
-creates law against native people !
it calls for the fed gov to enter into treaties with first nations !
only the fed gov can make receives and treaties!
sec 88 of the Indian act - general application were the provincial law can enforce general
application laws , which interferes with our Indianas !
political classifications of aboriginal people in the indian act!
-first nations !
-inuit !
-metis!
different politically , culturally , and legally !
treaty and non treaty land !
non treaty land : unseeded Algonquin territory , reserve!
ancestral land : the Algonquin territory !
Indian act!
it forced our people to reserve systems , it was responsible for the annihilation of our people ,
through residential schools !
outlawed gov practises !
and outlawed legal representation !
has a registration procedure and membership !
it says who can be an Indian !
1868 - 1985!
sec 12 9 B !
1985 to now !
sec 6 1 and 6 2!
the indian act applies to a non status indians b to inuit people c meti people d to all the above ,
e non of the above !
-non of the above !
Indian act only applies to status Indians!
DIAND administers programs for Inuit , non status and Metis !
they are only registered under the federal act !
status indians with a band membership !
and staus indians no band ; so their put on a list !
staus indians with treaty rights !
and staus indians with no treaty : algonquin !