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The MAIN/ORIGINAL purpose of the Indian Act
What is ASSIMILATION?
True or False:
The Indian Act (at some point) outlawed the practice of Indigenous languages, religions, any public dance, show, exhibition, stampede or pageant wearing traditional regalia, and any cultural ceremonies.
True!
For most of its existence, the Indian Act denied many women ______ _____.
Indian status
Reserve lands make up ____% of Canada's total land.
0.28%
A federal government policy presented by a minister
What is a White Paper?
Your favourite part of the presentation thus far?
Flattery will, in fact, get you somewhere.
The Indian Act paved the way for the introduction of ___________ _________ as means to further assimilation.
Residential schools
Doing this could result in a woman losing Indian status
What is marrying a non-status man?
What are reasons that some people choose to stay on reserve?
Maintaining language
Maintaining traditional governance
A place to reconnect
A place to practice culture
Resistance to assimilation
The name of the paper written in response to the White Paper of '69
What is "the Red Paper"?
What are three things you learned from our presentation?
Subjective (but must amount to three)
Under what conditions could uncultivated reserve lands be leased out?
If the new leaseholder intended would use the land for pasture or agriculture.
The Indian Act, despite the attempt to amend it with Bill ____, is still in violation of the _______ ______ __ _____ ___ _________.
C-31, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
(Explanation necessary) Why do reserves make it difficult for FNMI peoples inhabiting them to get loans?
As the land is in the Crown's name, it cannot be held as collateral because it cannot be seized.
What absolute gem of a human being uttered this sentence? *heavy sarcasm
"Call it assimilation, call it integration, call it adaptation, call it whatever you want: it has to happen."
Tom Flanagan (former advisor of Stephen Harper)
What are our names?
Lauren, Julia, Sara, Maya, Madeline
3 systems imposed by the Indian Act
What is:
1. The Pass system
2. Band council
3. Permit system
Also acceptable: reserve system
The imposition of patrilineage did this to Indigenous women
What is
Reduced them to property of their husbands and fathers
Made them dependent people
Stripped them of social/political/economic rights
The definitions of
alienable
divisible
descendible
What is
Able to be sold
Able to split into pieces
Able to be passed to heirs
(Reserves are NONE of the above)
Indifference and ignorance towards Indigenous peoples
What is the "buckskin curtain"?
Stand up and sing your favourite nursery rhyme! All group members must participate :)
Bonus points if you sang Tiny Tim - don't ask me for a demonstration because I WILL
What is the name of the absolute peach who said this nonsense?
"The great aim of our legislation has been to do away with the tribal system and assimilate the Indian people in all respects with the other inhabitants of the Dominion as speedily as they are fit to change,"
John A. MacDonald
The United Nations Human Rights Committee found Canada to be in breach of what?
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights over sexual discrimination
The analogy given for the Trust relationship (and yes you have to loosely explain it)
What is the Batman analogy?
What would the White Paper do?
Eliminate Indian status
Abolish the Indian Act entirely
Remove the Department of Indian Affairs
Convert reserves into private property
Make "Indian" concerns provincially managed