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Timeline of Aboriginal Affairs

By nina.pagtakhan

  • Royal Proclamation

    Royal Proclamation
    Royal ProclamationProvided medical care, hunting & fishing rights but FN ppl had to give up their culture & traditions.

  • Reserve System Introduced

    Reserve System Introduced
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    enclosed territories, limiting FN’s ability to participate in Cnd Econ b/c wealth is related to property. But land on reserves is actually owned by Fed. Gov’t. Any money is distributed through band councils.

  • Indian Act

    Indian Act
    Provided medical care, hunting & fishing rights but First Nations ppl had to give up their culture & traditions.Indian Act

  • Aboriginal Right to Universal Suffrage

    Aboriginal Right to Universal Suffrage
    First Nations People earn the right to vote.
    Before 1960, in order to gain rights as a Canadian citizen, an Aboriginal person have to sacrifice give up his/her Indian status as well as the right to live on a reserve.

  • National Indian Brotherhood & Native Council of Canada Formed

    National Indian Brotherhood & Native Council of Canada Formed
    NIBFormed to lobby on behalf of Aboriginal people living on reserves.

  • White Paper

    White Paper
    White PaperDefinition of ‘white paper’ –a document that a government puts forward for discussion. If it is accepted, it may be passed into a law. The 1969 White paper had a protective attitude.
    suggested FN should be treated exactly the same as other Cnd citizens (i.e. no reserves, must pay income tax)
    Issues: changing the reserve system, inadequate housing & education, ill health and poverty in the reserves.The Canadian government (PM Trudeau & Indian Affairs Minister, Jean Chretien) introduced the

  • Abolition of Residential Schools

    Abolition of Residential Schools
    [End of Residential Schools](Band schools emerged (schools where Aboriginal children could study their own languages and learn about their own cultures and traditions)Problem: secondary band schools far away from reserves therefore students had to live away from their families to go to school in cities such as Vancouver & New West (called the boarding home program)Problem: loneliness drove some to return from high school)[Residential Schools](Band schools emerged (schools where Aboriginal children could study their own languages and learn about their own cultures and traditions)Problem: secondary band schools far away from reserves therefore students had to live away from their families to go to school in cities such as Vancouver & New West (called the boarding home program)Problem: loneliness drove some to return from high school)Band schools emerged (schools where Aboriginal children could study their own languages and learn about their own cultures and traditions) Problem: secondary band schools far away from reserves therefore students had to live away from their families to go to school in cities such as Vancouver & New West (called the boarding home program) Problem: loneliness drove some to return from high school

  • Movement toward Self Government

  • Passing of Bill C 31

    C31Bill C-31 gave Aboriginal band councils the power to decide who had the right to live on Aboriginal reserves where previous decisions had been made by the Department of Indian Affairs

  • Meech Lake Accord

    Meech Lake

  • Oka Stand off

    Oka

  • Nisga’a Treaty 1992-1998

    Nisga'a Treaty

  • Ipperwash, Ontario

  • Gustafasen Lake Stand off

  • Statement of Reconciliation

    Statement of Reconcilliation

  • Delgamuluukw Case

    Clause

  • Creation of Nunavut

    Nunavut