POLS 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Postcolonialism, Indian Register, Constitution Act, 1982
20 Dec 2017
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Constitution act, 1982, defines the indigenous peoples of canada as including indians, There are approximately 50000 canadian inuit; they share many similarities of language and cultural values. Metis are a distinct cultural group composed of people of mixed aboriginal and. 390000 people identified as metis in the 2006 census. First nations = term used to replace word indian. Some specific legal terms: a status indian is a person who is registered under the indian act; the term. Registered indian is equivalent: a non-status indian is an indian person who is not registered under the indian act. Phase 1: pre-contact: social, political, economic organization. Phase 2: contact: fur trade and royal proclamation, 1763. Phase 3: post-contact: assimilation and reconciliation. Politics: terre nullius = land without people, royal proclamation, 1763. Economics: hudson bay company and the expansion of the fur trade = resource colonialism. Politics : empire/colonialism of gbr and then canada.
