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This act is deeply intertwined with the Canadian legal system that eliminating it would blur Indigenous People's identities and rights as a sovereign nation. Gradually eliminating racist points in the act may be possible, but instant elimination would cause chaos among Canadians. It would also lessen the responsibilites Canadians feel about their history.

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The “White paper” was presented to abolish the Indian act but it didn’t really happen because if the Indian Act was abolished, their reserve lands would be for sale, and the treaties would be gone as well. The treaties are sacred to Indigenous peoples as their ancestors made those. Also, it would erase Canada’s history and responsibilities.

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The relationship between the First Nations and Canadian society is changing positively because they are putting a lot of effort and time into solving the problems. However, It had become so deeply entrenched into the Canadian legal system, so there are still some of the effects today such as the definition of the "school" includes a day school, technical school, high school and residential school.

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It is because the Indian Act has deeply become a part of the Canadian legal system. It could terminate the identities of the Indians and erase Canada’s history and responsibilities. It means that Indians eventually become assimilated.

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The Indian Act prohibited Indians from hiring legal counsel, entering a pool hall, forming political organizations, and reserved lands to non-Indigenous lands. Also, it installed an Indian agent of reserves to implement government policies such as ensuring children attend residential school. To add more, the Indian Act also renamed Indians with Eurocentric names with European names.

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The Indian Act prohibited Indigenous Peoples from:
- hiring lawyers
- entering pool halls
- forming political organizations
- practicing the potlach and Sundance
- buying ammunition

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The Indian Act prohibited Indians from hiring legal counsel between the years 1927 to 1951, prevented Indians from entering a pool hall from 1927, and forbade Indians forming political organizations from 1927 to 1951.

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prohibited Indigenous people from

hiring legal council

entering pool halls

performing traditional ceremonies

forming political organizations

exiting reserves without permission (a pass)

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It has prohibited Indians from hiring legal counsel between the years 1927 to 1951. Also, they prohibited them from entering the pool hall. In addition, they were not allowed to have a potlatch.

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When an Indigenous women married a non-Indigenous man, she would be stripped of her Indian status and won't be able to give it to her children. However, when an Indigenous man married a non-Indigenous woman... the story is completely different.

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Various policies putting Indigenous women at a disadvantage.
The main example is Indigenous women losing status if they married a non-Indigenous man, while Indigenous men did not lose their status if they married someone non-indigenous. Instead, the women who married into the tribe would gain status.

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It was sexist because when an Indigenous man married a white woman, they could get status, and their kids would also gain status. However, when an Indigenous woman married a white man, they had to lose their status.

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Indigenous men had greater rights under the Indian Act than Indigenous women. For example, non-Ingenuous women who wanted to marry Indigenous men could get status. However, an Indigenous woman who married a white man would lose her status.

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Non-indigenous women who wanted to marry indigenous men they could get status. So if you were a white woman and you married an Indigenous man, you would become Indigenous, but it didn't work the other way around. So an Indigenous woman who married a white man would lose her status. So we can say that it was deeply sexist.

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The Canadian government forced the Indigenous Peoples to vote for the band council, which is a European system.

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The Indian Act controlled the band councils. Indigenous people couldn’t form other political organizations. The Indian Act destroyed the existing systems of governance they had had for hundreds of years.

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It replaced Indigenous forms of government that happened in place for thousands and thousands of years, and it enforced the Eurocentric idea of elected band councils.

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Indian act made a new rule which disrupted all of the Indigenous society’s clan system. They would normally have clan mothers who were sort of in charge of the chief. So when the government assimilated the Indigenous people and abolished their system, Indigenous people didn’t know what to do, they were lost in the new elected band council system.

It also managed reserve land and also reserve funds.

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Indian act controlled the band council, by managing reserve lands, and reserve funds.

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It is a way of assessing the percentage of Indigenous blood one had.

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Blood quantum is a weird way of measuring how much Indian blood you have. It could help the Canadian government to determine who an Indigenous person was and who was not.

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Blood quantum is a weird way of measuring the amount of "Indian blood" that an individual possesses.

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It's a way of measuring how much Indian blood a person have. ~ If a person had one-quarter Indian blood, hey could be on the membership rolls and have status.

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Way of measuring how much Indian blood you have.
Having one quarter Indian blood was the requirement to be on the membership rolls and gaining status.

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If you didn't want enfranchisement, you were considered a ward of the state (x making your own decisions).

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The person refusing to get enfranchised will be seen as an immature person who is incapable of making decisions.

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It means that Indians can become citizens. However, they have to give up their rights and go against the agreement with the government (Royal Proclamation)

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considered as a ward of the state

If you are an Indigenous veteran = not receiving the rewards of fighting for your country

You couldn’t attend post-secondary school, vote, be a clergyman, nor join the army if you are not enfranchised

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If you don't want enfranchisement, you would be considered a ward of the state. Children would not make their own decisions freely.

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The Gradual Enfranchisement Act allowed the Canadian government to control who First Nations were, to speed up assimilation.

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The Gradual Enfranchisement Act sped up the process of assimilation by restricting the band roll or membership rolls.

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They would be considered a ward of the state. It could be referred to as a child incapable of making their own choices and living freely. BUT, enfranchisement was only for men at that time.

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It meant that if Indigenous people gained citizenship, they would have to give up their traditional rights and go against the agreements made in the RP and the  Treaty of Niagara.

established elective band councils with restricted governing powers

determined who would be eligible for band and treaty benefits

allowed for gender based restrictions to status

regulated alcohol consumption

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It was the precursor to the Indian act. Indigenous people could become citizens if they had given up their traditional rights and go against the agreement in the Royal Proclamation, as well as the treaty of Niagara. ~ Assimilation

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Please add your group's response under each question.

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Question 6: “Why can't we just push the Indian Act into the ocean?”

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Question 6: “Why can't we just push the Indian Act into the ocean?”

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Question 5: What did the Indian Act prohibit?

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Question 5: What did the Indian Act prohibit?

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Question 4: How was the Indian Act deeply sexist?

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Question 4: How was the Indian Act deeply sexist?

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Question 3: How did it affect the band councils?

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Question 3: How did it affect the band councils?

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Question 1-a: What happens if you don’t want enfranchisement? 

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Question 1-a: What happens if you don’t want enfranchisement? 

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Question 1: What is the Gradual Enfranchisement Act about?

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Question 1: What is the Gradual Enfranchisement Act about?

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Summary of responses from my group to Q1....