The Indian Act Of 1869

This enables the federal government to assume full responsibility over the entire First Nations population. In A People’s Dream Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada, by Dan Russell, 2000, he brings up issues about the federal government making policies that have direct affect on First Nations People and they have no knowledge or say of what happens regarding decision about their people[4]. The federal government has a great deal of power that will ultimately alter how First Nations are dealt with. Dan Russell discuses both the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlotte Town Accord that would have had a major impact on how “Indians” were handled he states “Canadian history and laws, since shortly after initial contact with Europeans settlers, have limited the possibilities of easily exercising Aboriginal self-government in Canada”[5]. Once the first wave of settles arrived in North America, the Dominion of Canada created the power to control how settlers and resources were handled which left them also having to deal with the original inhabitants by means isolation in reserves. To look back into history even in the earliest stages of civilization First Nations People were only “interpreters and clerks, but none at the policy-making level”[6], in order to create change they need to be where these policies are being made. In making these policies and procedures there has been little to no

The Indian Act was an attempt by the Canadian government to assimilate the aboriginals into the Canadian society through means such as Enfranchisement, the creation of elective band councils, the banning of aboriginals seeking legal help, and through the process of providing the Superintendent General of the Indian Affairs extreme control over the aboriginals, such as allowing the Superintendent to decide who receives certain benefits, during the earlier stages of the Canadian-Indigenous' political interaction. The failure of the Indian Act though only led to more confusion regarding the interaction of Canada and the aboriginals, giving birth to the failed White Paper and the unconstitutional Bill C-31,

The purpose of the Indian Act was to encourage assimilation. This was achieved by suppressing traditional ceremonies, defining who was "Indian" and who wasn 't, and moving First Nations to reserves in hopes of disconnecting First Nations ' ties with the land. The term status Indian was used to define someone who is registered according to the provisions of the act and is therefore eligible to receive specific benefits.

Indian Removal (Zinn Chapter 7) Once the white men decided that they wanted lands belonging to the Native Americans (Indians), the United States Government did everything in its power to help the white men acquire Indian land. The US Government did everything from turning a blind eye to passing legislature requiring the Indians to give up their land (see Indian Removal Bill of 1828). Aided by his bias against the Indians, General Jackson set the Indian removal into effect in the war of 1812 when he battled the great Tecumseh and conquered him. Then General, later to become President, Jackson began the later Indian Removal movement when he conquered Tecumseh¹s allied Indian nation and began distributing

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was an act that helped aid the expansion of the United States population into the southernmost states, occupied mainly by Native Americans. The act was a long time coming, especially with President Andrew Jackson, a long-time proponent of Native American removal, at the helm. This paper explores the history leading up to the law, the introduction and passage, as well as the sometimes-tragic implementation of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

The indian removal act was proposed in Congress in January of 1830. Political leaders were concerned about the place of indians. They felt they took land that the whites wanted. Many people argue that the indian removal act was justified, others disagree. Treaties with the government gave land to the indians but in the 1820’s white settlements were growing and they felt they needed the land more than the indians. The native americans were considered civilized because many of them had gone far in accepting the values and lifestyles of the U.S white society. Many of them had also become christian and some have become settled farmers. They even adopted farming methods of the whites. Lastly, they developed their own written language and adopted

The Indian Act document signed in 1876, resulted in the first nation people to give up their land, religion, culture, and rights. The government wanted the first nation people to give up their Indian status and be them, follow their culture.

Different laws like the Indian Act and other treaties played an outstanding role in shaping Aboriginal relationship in Canada. The Indian Act led to a huge conflict of interest following its effect on the Indians living in Canada during its implementation. The Indian Act was a mechanism that strengthened the eviction of Indians ad also a means of displacing Indians from their tribal lands. On the onset of the 19th Century, land hungry Canadian settlers clustered in the coastal south of Canada and slowly moved into the neighboring states. Since most of the tribes occupying that area were the Indians, the Canadian settlers petitioned the Canadian government to remove them as they perceived them as an obstacle to expansion towards the west. The rationale for the Indian Act was that the southeast Indian tribes had no attachment to any particular land. However, this rationale ignored the fact the Indian tribes had vast crops of corn and lived in settlements.

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, also known as the Wheeler Howard Act or the IRA, had a major impact on the everyday lives of Native American Tribes that were scattered across the United states. The Indian Reorganization Act provided the means and tools for tribes to form their own governments and constitutions. The IRA stopped the general allotment act that was put into effect by the Dawes of 1887. The Indian Reorganization Act granted the Secretary of Interior a tremendous amount of power over Native American affairs ranging from land, livestock, employment, government, etc. According to the reorganization plan, after a tribe or nation voted to accept the IRA, it would draw up a constitution and bylaws, submit it to a referendum,

Amerindians has been set apart and delay their development which makes first people life hard. Indian people had special status. It was a response to American Indian Movement. “The White Paper” was a voice of first people to Canadian Government for individual human rights. The American Indian Movement spread to Canada. The Canadian government announced, “to enable the Indian people to be free-free to develop Indian cultures in an environment of legal, social and economic equality with other Canadians” (Dickason 372). The first people had special status, which brought to native people many difficult things. However, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s do see that special status for first people was wrong in a democratic society. Ottawa makes possible to give fifty million dollars available for economic development to Amerindians. In the same year, Indian Claims Commission established for making the equal right as Canadian citizens. As a result of “the White Paper”, first people gets the individual rights instead of collective rights. The cancellation of Indian Act brings changes such as losing the compensation for the ancestors land. In formulating “the white paper” Ottawa did not involve Amerindians that brings many troubles. The National Indian Brotherhood admits their view on this act, “We view this as a policy designed to divest

The Indian Act is the principle document through which the parliament administers indian status. This act discriminated lot of First Nations rights and freedoms. The Indian act was first signed in 1876, critics argue that the act assumes that federal government officials are the best judges of the needs for the First Nation people. In a recent conversation with an Aboriginal social worker. We discussed how this changed her worldview as her children are leaving in the end of the summer to residential schools. She complained that her children are going to forget who they are and what they represent for their ancestors, and their legacies will turn into fantasies. As she continued she mentioned how the government is trying to assimilate First

As they planned this idea with the churches across Canada, it became an unforgettable event for the native people. “The implementation of the Indian Act (1876), the government was required to provide Aboriginal youth with an education and to integrate them into Canadian society” (Miller). These schools changed the way native people lived in Canada. The children in these schools were abused and neglected everyday as a punishment. The reason for this is that the students would talk to other students in their native languages and this caused mayhem for teachers to abuse them in terrible ways. They were hit by sticks and they would use anything else as a weapon to teach them a lesson (Hanson). The treatment in these schools were awful that some were physically changed in appearance. The teachers would give them verbal abuse as well if they continue to do small mistakes. The treatments the children were given resulted in really high death toll rates (Hanson). As this continued the Canadian government wanted to “kill the Indian in the child” (Hanson) to modernize the native children. It was a rule of the government so they can have no native cultures left in the future and remove the unwanted languages of the past.

In April of 1850, the new California government passed Act for Government and Protection of Indians aimed to regulate all of the interactions between Indians and the new Anglo-American settlers. The law tackled the traditions on political and economic of the tribes, while punishing Indians severely on any convicts of stealing or any other crime (Gunther 11).

The Indian act brought a huge change in the first nations culture as they had to adapt to a whole new life with residential schools being implied, had to adapt to living on reserves and they had one of their most important piece of culture the potlatch was banned. The Residential schools main purpose was “to Kill the Indian in the child” which is just saying that the government wanted the first nations people to learn how to be more like the colonists. The banning of the potlatch was one of the most destructive things that came from the indian act as the potlatch was one of the biggest ceremonies that a first nations could throw as it was a showing of wealth by the host and really just a huge showing of culture and when the government took it away it was like they took away the entire first nations culture . The government wanted to take over canada and create it a the euro-canadian

Indigenous ways of life and traditional practices were scrutinized by European colonialists and were considered to be primitive and uncivilized. The Aboriginals’ were not respected on the notion of their cultural differences and were subordinated through the use of ethnic labeling. The indigenous had their own system of laws and practices, however, it was not codified in written form. Despite the indigenous populations oral system of laws and practices, the European colonialists devalued any tradition that was not codified in the written form of law(Jan 20 Class Lecture- Reference Reading)The idea of civilizing the indigenous population became a central goal through the imposition of repressive sanctions(Durkheim) and imposed legal orders. One example of the ways these repressive sanctions were implemented was through the creation of the Indian Act as seen in the Club Native Video. The Indian Act of 1876 “displayed a theme of assimilation and "civilizing" of the Indians. Their Indian status was regarded as a temporary stage on the road to assimilation.”(http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_treaties/john_fp33_indianact.html). The Act controlled land rights and specified who was granted Aboriginal status on the basis of “pure” blood content, but was highly discriminatory to the indigenous populations. The Indian Act of 1876 is a horrific example of colonial rule