Indigenous rights in canada

Indigenous Rights in Canada

By Athena the Bookworm

  • Major changes to Indian Act remove a number of discriminatory laws

  • Forced relocation of Sayisi Dean

  • Totem presented to Queen Mother

  • Natives are given the right to vote in federal elections

  • Start of Scooping Sixties - Thousands if Indigenous children placed in foster or adoption homes

  • Voice of Alberta Native Women's Society found

  • Department of Indian Affairs assumes responsibility for Residential Schools

  • Federal government establishes committee to negotiate claims in Yukon

  • First Aboriginal reserve created in North-West Territories

  • North-West Territories Supreme Court allows Indian Brotherhood of North-West Territories to file claim for one-third of NWT

  • Native Women's Association of Canada is found

  • Ralph Steinhauer becomes first Indigenous person to hold vice-regal office in Canada

  • Quebec signs James Bay treaty with Cree and Inuit peoples

  • Willie Adams becomes first Inuit to hold a seat in Parliament

  • Department of Indian affairs evaluates the twelve remaining Residential Schools and takes initiatives

  • End of Scooping Sixties

  • The Inuvialuit Claims Settlement Act gives Inuit peoples of the west Arctic control over resources

  • Changes to the Indian Act are made to extend Indian status to Métis, enfranchised aboriginals, and aboriginal women who had lost it

  • The Oka crisis focuses attention of native land claims

  • Police attempt to storm barricade erected by Mohawk to block expansion of golf course into Mohawk land

  • Head of Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, Phil Fontaine, speaks publicly about abuse at Residential Schools

  • Prime Minister Brian Mulroney initiates Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

  • Jocelyne Gros-Louis becomes first woamn to be names leader of a First Nation in Cananda

  • The Inuit people endorse Nunavut

  • James Bay Cree referendum shows they would rather stay with Canada if Quebec were to separate

  • Last Residential School closes

  • Federal and Provincial governments sign land claims with Nishga'a peoples

  • Final Report of the Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples released

  • Nunavut is created in the western Arctic with land set aside for the Inuit peoples

  • Supreme Court of Canada rules lower courts should apply traditional disciplinary practices when sentencing Indigenous individuals

  • Supreme Court rules to open band elections to off-reserve band members

  • House of Commons votes in favour of bill that would give the Nishga'a right to self-governance

  • Federal government approves Nishga'a Treaty and gives the tribe $196 million

  • Nishga'a Traety is given Royal assent

  • The Nuu-chah-nulth tribal council agrees to sign treaty with Provincial and Federal governments

  • Mohawks reject building of casino by referendum

  • The Kelowna Accord is called

  • Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement provides compensation to survivors of Residential Schools

  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper offers official apology on behalf of Canada for residential skills

  • Treaty with Tsawwassen First Nations legally takes effect

  • Canada signs the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples

  • Winter housing crisis in Attawapiskat rivets national attention

  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper holds summit meeting with First Nations chiefs

  • First Totem Pole in 130 years is erected in Gwaii Haanas

  • Monument to honour Residential School survivors is unveiled

  • First official Aboriginal pride event takes place to honour the community of two-spirited people

  • Supreme Court of Canada changes legal definition of "Indian"

  • Canada supports United Nations declaration on Indigenous Rights

  • Energy East pipeline project is cancelled

  • Sixties Scoop survivors receive settlement