LWSO 203 Lecture Notes - Indian Act, Sui Generis, Negative And Positive Rights

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Law and Society
• Course: LWSO 203
• Professor: Marywyatt Sindlinger

Document Summary

Among all different groups of aboriginals there was more emphasis on rules and customs revolving around responsibility. Having to consider other people in the community instead of considering your own self. Settler"s law, colonizers law canadian law applied to the aboriginal peoples of canada: War between england and france, the english win, and this act was made of king. It imposed english law on the french colony. It said that any lands that did not been taken from the first nations yet, are reserved for those first nations. These were lands for exclusive use and possession of those first nations. Those lands can only be transferred to the crown (this stays true to this day). This land cannot be sold to traders, settlers or anyone else except the crown. The crown becomes the guardian of these lands and gets to decide what happens to this land. A lot of the decisions move from the first nations to the government.