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Royal ProclamationProvided medical care, hunting & fishing rights but FN ppl had to give up their culture & traditions.
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Reserves<a href='http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aboriginal-reserves/' >Reserves</faslkjdflkasjjdfaskldfljalskdf
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. -
Provided medical care, hunting & fishing rights but First Nations ppl had to give up their culture & traditions.Indian Act
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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. -
NIBFormed to lobby on behalf of Aboriginal people living on reserves.
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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 -
[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
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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
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