SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Masters, Racial Profiling, Indian Act
19 Dec 2019
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Because of perceived differences in physical appearance or cultural heritage. Indigenous people have been living in what is now canada for at least 14,000 years. The indigenous population was racialized in the 16th century in the context of european colonization. Settlers and their descendants have lived in canada for only 3. 3% of its history, yet indigenous history is largely ignored. Indigenous people tend to be studied mainly by outsiders and predominantly from the perspective of social problems. Indigenous peoples are defined by a complex system of legal statuses that separates them from non-indigenous peoples, and from each other. Legal designations include: registered indian, bill c-31 indian, band member, reserve residents, treaty. Legal differences stem from the indian act (1876) and are administered by the federal department of indigenous and northern affairs. Until 1985, the indian act only recognized men as registered indian ; women"s status was derived from the man to whom they were married; children"s from their father.
