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Established Canada as a Confederation. Assigned to Parliament legislative jurisdiction over "Indians and Lands reserved for the Indians"; 2 separate powers cover status and civil rights on the one hand and Indian lands on the other.
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Control how Indians lived and interacted with non-indians.
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Common legal process by which native peoples lost their Native Status under the Indian Act.
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Without ownership of land, Indigenous peoples are not able (to this day) to develop reserve lands because they have been unable to, for example, obtain bank loans as they have no collateral. As a result below-poverty standards of living are on-going today.)
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Government can take what it wants when it wants. Allowed portions of reserves to be expropriated by municipalities for roads, railways or other public purposes without Native consultation.
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Indian Act amended to include Inuit people.
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Canadian government overhauled the act and continue to amend it throughout remainder of 20th century.
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Canadian status indians gain the right to vote in Federal Elections.
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Indians ad the right to vote in federal and provincial elections.
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Indians could no longer be forced to give up indian status and native women who married non-status men no longer lost their Indian status.
