The Indian Act is a piece of explicitly racist legislation passed in 1876. It was an attempt ... and clearly the government of Canada is a terrible landlord. It also imposed a system of government on ...

(Library and Archives Canada/PA-042133) Since Canada was created in 1867, the federal government has been in charge of aboriginal affairs. The Indian Act, which was enacted in 1876 and has since ...

Under this scenario reserves in a post-Indian Act Canada would look much the same as today. The poor reserves in isolated parts of the country will continue to struggle and reserves in more ...

The reserve system, knit together under the 1876 Indian Act, is an explicitly racist construction ... of the 6,551 female homicides recorded in Canada between 1980 and 2012 (which is 32 per ...

It's just one of those moments where we hold a mirror up to Canada ... The Indian Act is still taking names off the list and still shipping people to urban centres. When you cut back Indian Affairs ...

In 1876, the young country of Canada passed a set of laws intended to govern First Nations people in Canada. Decades later, those laws still exist and are largely unchanged — as you may be ...

Canada’s Indian Act is a piece of federal legislation, passed in 1876, that governs issues related to Indian status, First Nations governments and reserves. At the time it was passed, the act ...

Library and Archives Canada Postmedia Wire The Indian Act is a racist, colonialist piece of legislation, an assimilationist tool enacted in 1876 to exert ... them on their reserves (unless given ...

In Canada, many people are still oblivious to the Indian Act, says Joseph. Since it was first passed in 1876, the Indian Act ... bands and reserves, among other things. The legislation ...

How does the 1876 Indian Act still affect Canada’s governance? In my opinion, as not all of its consequences have been resolved, some Canadians’ values continue to be ignored. Who created that ...

Since it was passed in 1876 the Indian Act has contained a tax ... owned by Registered Indians on Indian reserves. (“Registered Indian” is the term used in the constitution, legislation, ...

It perpetuates harmful stereotypes and hinders non-Indigenous Canadians from reconciling with the truths of Canada ... Indian Act was passed by Alexander Mackenzie’s Liberal government in 1876.