SOWK 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joint Committee, Indian Act, Nuclear Family
Document Summary
Indigenous children and families from an indigenous perspective. Treaties set up a relationship between the government. We see as the church starts to hand over the control to the state there was a dramatic change. Post world war ii there is immense amount of poverty indigenous individuals were facing, very limited access to the economy - with the change in reserves, it caused indigenous people to face a health crisis. A joint committee was set up to see what they could do about the indian act to deal with the crisis that the indigenous people were facing on the reserves, and living in terrible conditions. Indigenous people were constructed as children. as part of the committee indian children who were neglected and lack the protection . Indigenous are a part of the federal government, resulting in them not receiving provincial benefits. Are not provincial citizens, but are federal citizens. The indian act extending provincial care to indians.
