Articles related to "Indian Act"

Section 35(2) of the Canadian Constitution 1982 defines Aboriginal people as Indian, Inuit and Metis. Each are a separate and distinct, with a unique culture and history.

Through various pieces of legislation eventually consolidated into the Indian Act, the Government has assumed the right to define the identity of Aboriginal people.

Sandra Lovelace and a group of strong women from the Tobique, New Brunswick reserve influenced the course of Native history in Canada.

Canadians have believed a myth about the negotiations in the Indian treaties as being just, honest and fair dealings to allow them to integrate into Canadian society.

A farmer and lobbyist for rights, James Gladstone of Alberta's Kainai Reserve arrived in the Senate of Canada with one big problem - First Nations people could not vote.

Ottawa sets control of the First Nations with amendments to the Indian Act.

The burden of forming, supplying and training local militia units in the American colonies was nearly always that of the local community.

The Assiniboine aboriginals of the Canadian prairies celebrated buffalo hunts by putting on a Medicine Dance (also known as the Sun Dance or Thirst Dance).

A First Nations protest over the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) snarled downtown Toronto traffic. When HST legislation passes, they stand to lose their point-of-sale rebate

"They will always be the colonists and they will always have to negotiate with us. And if they don't negotiate in good faith, there will always be trouble."