HIST 2500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Six Nations Of The Grand River, James Gladstone, Quebec Agreement
Document Summary
Forced canada to reconsider treatment of natives. Most oppressing laws banning key customs no longer effective: potlatch, powwows . Aboriginals allowed to possess and drink alcohol but only on reserves. Aboriginals allowed to sue government over land claims. Provinces have more control in determining indian status but the federal government still has most control. Diefenbaker named james gladstone, member of alberta"s blood tribe, as first. Canadian federal government gave non-enfranchised indians the right to vote in the federal election but they still had no self-government (1960) Rcmp forced its way into six nations reserve, which until 1924 had been self- governed by natives, and evicted iroquois chiefs and mothers when traditionalists declared the reserve separate from canada (1959) Trudeau issued the white paper saying that canada should not negotiate anymore treaties with the natives because treaties are only signed between sovereign nations. Trudeau did not agree with land claims either because they are to broad.
