Indian Status
…in the government’s interest to reduce the numbers of eligible Indians and therefore ease the associated governmental responsibilities and expenditures. To “legislate out” Indian status would ultimately absolve themselves from…
The Indian Act
…Back. Volume 1. Ottawa: the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1996. 235-308. Steckley, John L. and Bryan D. Cummins. “Chapter Twelve: The Royal Proclamation and the Indian Act.” Full Circle:…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…children only with other people with Indian status – in effect, a form of racial engineering.2 The logic of Indian status flows from thinking of Indigeneity (or ethnicity more broadly)…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…restructured over time through a number of policies, including the Indian Act, Indian status, and the residential school system. Scholars, community members and other experts point out that even after…
Bill C-31
…equality under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It proposed modifications to various sections of the Indian Act, including significant changes to Indian status and band membership, with three…
Reserves
…fall under the jurisdiction of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), as stipulated in the Indian Act. Fraser concluded that INAC lacks the capacity and resources and is generally unprepared…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…clan identifiers within their communities, but use the name of a band, nation, or larger cultural group (e.g., Musqueam Indian Band, Okanagan Nation, Anishinaabe), or these other more general terms…
The White Paper 1969
…by the Indian Act would “enable the Indian people to be free—free to develop Indian cultures in an environment of legal, social and economic equality with other Canadians.” To this…
The Residential School System (2009)
…the Indian Residential School. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998. First published by Tillicum Library, 1988. Manitoba. Public Inquiry into the Administration and Aboriginal People. “Aboriginal Women.” Vol. 1, chap. 13,…
Gustafsen Lake
…did not reveal that it was in fact their own ERT. The RCMP would phone back once the ERT mission was over, revealing the men as RCMP officers.8 Several other…
