GEG 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Campbell Scott, Indian Act
1 Nov 2016
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Elections, farming, education, healthcare passes for leaving reserves. Heavy restriction for movement on and off reserves. Believed the best way to manage indians was to keep them segregated. Case by case: great indian agents to horrible restrictive ones. Have direct responsibility od dealing with indian affairs reserves seen as social laboratories to make indians christian and hunter gathers farmers -> sedentary life. Affairs decide what denomination of christianity goes where. Priest and indian agent and most important bureaucrats on reserve. Christianity and assimilation go hand in hand laws enforced through the indian act (1880-1980) remained relatively unchanged. Since 1988 small incremental changes but nothing sweeping reason for amendments. Aboriginal fought in ww2, most per capita of ethnicity, why were fighting for freedom if we don"t have it. One of the most dominant superintendents of indian affairs (1913-1932) duncan campbell. Scott -> wants to get rid of the indian problem .
