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Manitoba & Metis Land Scripts
Script given to Metis people living in the west in exchange for their land rights.
-2: This wasn't good, as their land was being taken away from them in exchange for a script. They would never get their land back. -
Creation of the Indian Act
The act made a numerous amount of laws that aimed to eliminate Indigenous culture.
-1: Assimilated Indigenous from their original culture. -
Legislation Creating Residential Schools Passed
Created under the Indian act, it combined all previous laws, putting Indigenous communities, land, and finances under government control.
-5: This is an issue, since they have taken away their culture. -
Potlach Ban
The government passed legislation prohibiting the practice of potlatch, amending the Indian Act.
-3.5: This took away traditions practiced by the Indigenous. -
PH Bryce Report Suppressed
PH Bryce visited 35 residential schools and reported that they were overcrowded and mistreated.
+1: PH Bryce pushed for better sanitation in the schools, so kids would not catch diseases. -
First Nations Enfranchisement
When the goverment rejected Indigenous rights to vote.
-4: Everyone had the right to vote, yet they were rejecting access to the Indigenous so they wouldn't have political power. -
Trudeau's White Paper
Designed to abolish the Indian Act.
-1: Indigenous believe is assimilating them, because they see the white paper as cultural genocide. -
Red Paper (turning point)
Indigenous people in Canada expressed their dissatisfaction with the federal government.
+4: They are resisting assimilation, meaning they are going to be more accepted. -
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Turning Point
Red Paper-Calder vs. Attorney-general of British Columbia First time Indigenous are being recognized. -
Calder vs. Attorney-General of British Columbia
Was the first time the Canadian law recognized that aboriginal title to land existed.
5: This was the first time that aboriginals were recognized to own land. -
Bill C-31
Used the amend the Indian Act to confirm the Canadian Charter of rights and Freedoms equality rights.
+4.5: the Bill C-31 was made to make the Indian Act better. -
Oka Crisis
Was a 78 day 'standoff' between Mohawk protesters, Quebec police, the RCMP, and The Canadian Army because of a golf course being built too close to Oka.
-3: This worried the Mohawks that they were being assimilated off their land. -
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Royal commission was implemented to look into issues and propose solutions to issues affecting the relationship among aboriginal peoples the Canadian government and out society.
+4: This is good because it is trying to fix the relationship between the Indigenous and Canadian Government. -
Creation of Nunavut
Allowed for a Indigenous controlled government.
+3: Allowing Indigenous peoples to be in control of their own society. -
Residential Schools Apology
In 2008, the Prime Minister at the time (Steven Harper) recognized the wrong done in the past and apologized towards the Indigenous peoples.
+5: This was good, as the government addressed thew wrong done in the past, however an apology doesn't undo the mistakes. -
Idle No More
Movement to protest the federal government's alleged inability to uphold treaty rights and obligations.
+1: Indigenous peoples are fighting to keep their treaties, as they allow them to be their own culture. -
Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Provide a chance for those who were directly or indirectly affected by the history of the Indigenous Residential School System to tell their story.
+5: It gives Indigenous peoples a chance to tell their stories and experiences of residential schools. -
MMIWG Inquiry (Final Draft)
The National Inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.
+4: Good, as it built a foundation that allows Indigenous women and girls to reclaim their power.