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Royal Proclamation
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/royal-proclamation-of-1763/</a>
- Issued by King George III to explain government administration in the North American territories.
- Followed the Seven Years War
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Reserve System
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadas-electoral-system-feature/- Governed by the Indian Act.
- Residents on a reserve are governed by band councils.
- Aborigional identity
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Indian Act
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/indian-act/- Federal government administraters Indian status.
- Local First Nations governments and the management of reserve lands and communal monies.
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Aboriginal Right to Universal Suffrage
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National Indian Brotherhood & Native Council of Canada Formed
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/national-indian-brotherhood/- comprised of the Executive and all administrative, technical, and support staff. The AFN also includes a Council of Women and a National Youth Council.
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White Paper
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/white-paper/- Government document that outlines boht government policy on an issue and how to deal with the issue.
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Residential School System
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools/- Government sponsored
- Religious schools
- Christian
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Movement Towards Self Government
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aboriginal-self-government/- Formal structure through which Aborigional people control their communities and the administration of their people.
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Assembly of the First Nations
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/assembly-of-first-nations/- Political organization representing those identified as bands under the Indian Act.
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Passing of Bill C-31
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bill-barilko/- Bring the Indian Act into line with gender equality under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Meech Lake
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-death-of-the-meech-lake-accord-feature/- package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated
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Oka Standoff
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/oka-crisis/- 78-day standoff between Mohawk protesters, police, and army.
- At the heart of the crisis was the proposed expansion of a golf course and development of condominiums on disputed land that included a Mohawk burial ground.
- 78-day standoff between Mohawk protesters, police, and army.
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Nisga's Treaty
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nisgaa-land-treaty/- the formation of our first Land Committee in 1890.
- from 1927 to 1951, the Nisga'a could not pursue our goal for a treaty.
- Canadian laws made it illegal for Indians to raise money to advance land claims.
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Ipperwash Ontario
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ipperwash-crisis/- The underlying cause of the crisis was the appropriation of the Stoney Point Reserve in 1942 by the federal government for use as a military camp.
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Gustafsen Lake BC
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gustafsen-lake-standoff-15-charged/- confrontation between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Ts'peten Defenders in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, at Gustafsen Lake.
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Delgamuukw Case
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/delgamuukw-case/- The Delgamuukw case concerned the definition, the content and the extent of aboriginal title.
- The Supreme Court observed that aboriginal title constituted an ancestral right
