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Peter Jones/Kahkewawuonbay

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  • travelled to Britain in 1845 to raise funds for Ojibwa schools
  • hoped for schools run by indigenous people that would help them defend their rights
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status Indian

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  • not Canadian citizens
  • status removed if university educated
  • couldn’t vote
  • had certain treaty rights
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non-status Indian

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if Metis took treaty, they would be full status first nations
if took scrip, would lose status completely

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1876 Indian Act/impact on women

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  • aims of integrating Indians into general life and economy of country
  • complicated matters regarding Indian women and their status
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cede & surrender treaty clause

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  • Dene: our laws from the creator do not allow us to cede, release, surrender of extinguish our inherent rights
  • believed land would be shared not ceded
  • government claimed Cree as cede, surrender and release grounds
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Duncan Campbell Scott

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  • deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs
  • “I want to get rid of the Indians problem… our objective is to continue until there’s not a single Indian in Canada that hadn’t been absorbed into the body of politics and there’s no Indian question and no Indian department”
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1951 amendments to Indian Act

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  • no longer illegal for Indians to practice customs and culture
  • now allowed to enter pool halls and gamble
  • allowed to drink in community
  • allowed to appear off reserve in ceremonial dress without Indian Agent permission
  • allowed to organize and hire legal council
  • Indian women now allowed to vote in band councils
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Indigenous women activism

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1981 - Sandra Lovelace of New Brunswick - her activism led the government to let women decide to keep status when marrying non-status

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Indian “reserves”

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  • government had power to take away portions of reserves
  • illegal transfer of Peguis first nation because settlers thought it was a nice place to live and put pressure on the government
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PM Pierre Trudeau

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  • said his government didn’t want to face political difficulties with according citizens plus status while French Canadians were demanding
  • eventually retracted white paper
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Peguis First Nation “St. Peter’s removal”

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East Selkirk - illegal land transfer
- economic boom - community growing fast
- lots of people lived rurally, word of mouth on voting didn’t spread
- paying indigenous people off to vote to leave
- votes were short therefore government decided that they should transfer
- no records kept
- given 2 days to move to uninhabitable locations

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indigenous soldiers - WW1

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  • thousands enlisted hoping to get rights/freedom, see world, earn money
  • first taste of equality
  • first time many Canadians saw Indigenous people
  • nothing changed for Indigenous people when they came back
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Indigenous soldiers - WW2

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  • Canadian soldiers began advocating for and supporting Indigenous soldiers
  • legions began supporting Indigenous families
  • birth of reconciliation
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Shingaukonse

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Fundraised for school in Southern Ontario
- really wanted education for Indigenous children

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Indigenous peoples & Canadian Healthcare

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  • Didn’t have access to traditional foods or natural medicine since they weren’t allowed to leave reserve without permission
  • were promised free healthcare & social services - wasn’t delivered
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Hawthorn Report & recommendations

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  • Harry Hawthorn appointed to investigate social education & economic conditions
    recommendations:
  • FN people shouldn’t be forced to acquire values of majority that they don’t want
  • urged opportunity to study own language
  • encouraged “citizens plus”
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Hawthorn report revealed:

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  • Alberta citizens were Citizens minus - Canada’s most disadvantaged
  • education below national average
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Harold Cardinal

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  • negotiated with federal government
  • leader of Indian Association of Alberta
  • Challenged white paper - wrote a book
  • led to government no longer ignoring indigenous perspectives
  • law degree from Harvard
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Compulsory enfranchisement

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  • power given to superintendent-general to enfranchise those he considered qualified - would receive land title & band money
  • indigenous women lost status when marrying non-status
  • Indian Act replaced traditional leadership - women lost their leadership and economic power
  • government took advantage of gender equality to weaken them
  • strengthened compulsory school attendance
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Fiduciary relationship

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  • after 1885 rebellion - parent child relationship
  • continued use of unauthorized lands
  • indigenous people had to have hunting/fishing license or would be arrested
  • treaty rights pushed away
  • tried to abolish Indian status and assimilate
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Robinson/Huron treaties

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  • southern Ontario
  • crown got as much land as possible
  • surrender clause

Anishinaabe wanted:
- annuities from mining
- keep hunting/fishing rights - not honored (could be arrested/weapons confiscated)
- reserve parts of land

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health experiments on Indigenous peoples

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  • withheld nutrients - malnutrition and suffering
  • kept on starvation-level diets
  • investigators said malnutrition was inherited
  • people were hungry and poor due to collapse of fur trade and little government support
23
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white paper

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  • government recipe for equality
  • status revoked - Indigenous peoples became like all other Canadians
  • didn’t recognize aboriginal rights - treaties would be cancelled
  • national Indian Brotherhood opposed
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what was the white paper in response to

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American Indian movement spreading to Canada

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Bagot Commission

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  • report from investigation into Indigenous Affairs
  • named after chief commissioner - Charles Bagot
  • described lack of direction in indigenous administration & urged control
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what did the Bagot Commission recommend

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  • reserved to be surveyed and boundaries publicly announced
  • timber licensing for reserves
  • indigenous people be taught European land management techniques, provided with livestock, agricultural equipment
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“medicine chest” treaty clause

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  • kept at Indian Agent’s house for use under his direction
  • crown was to step in in times of health crisis
  • full medical care was to be provided under treaty - government continues to deny
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Hayter Reed

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  • Iron heart
  • saw indigenous starvation as laziness
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industrial schools

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  • type of residential school
  • off reserve
  • students enrolled until 18
  • girls learned domestic arts
  • boys learned agriculture, craft and trades
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tuberculosis and Indian hospitals

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  • most residential students died of tuberculosis
  • inuit who were sent for treatment got adopted without family knowing

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