Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sixties Scoop, Indian Register, Indian Act

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Carrie Smith

Document Summary

Aboriginal peoples: collective term for original inhabitants of canada. The colonial legacy: colonialism: forced political domination of one nation over another including administrative, economic, and cultural control. (an attempt to subjugate aboriginal peoples. ) As a direct result, to this day living conditions and income levels for the: aboriginal communities and those living off reserve continue to be lower than for the rest of canada. Legal agreements made by different nations to set out obligations, rights and duties of each party: many made between different indigenous nations and europeans. First nations saw treaties as sacred, and a way to protect self-determination over own territories (what later (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith (cid:862)reser(cid:448)es(cid:863)) Europeans interpreted them differently: many debates, protests, disputes, negotiations happening all over the country about legitimacy of treaties signed, and treaty rights. The indian act of 1876 sought strictly to define who would be considered an indian so as to exert government authority over aboriginal peoples.