The reserve system recognized the uniqueness of First Nations people but also proceeded in a manner of assimilating them into Canadian society by allowing the government to have overpowering control. With the establishment of the reserve system came the development of the Indian Act (Cassidy & Bish, 1989). .
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In 1876, Parliament passed the Indian Act, the legislation that merged all existing laws relating to Indian peoples in the provinces and territories. This Act and its subsequent amendments provided Canada with the means to govern Indian relations and affairs, to recognize and assimilate Indian peoples and their governments (Cassidy & Bish, 1989). The Indian Act is a comprehensive part of legislation that limits and restricts activities in all sectors of Indian communities (Report on the Special Committee on Indian Self-government, 1983). No involvement from the First Nations peoples was requested to write the Act. In addition, First Nations people did not partake in the election of the officials who legislated the Act because they were not allowed to vote in federal elections until 1960. However, in spite of all this the Indian Act was an important part of legislation that dominated and controlled almost every facet of reserve life. The contradiction between the federal government's objectives of providing a protective context for the exercise of the Indian way of life. As well as by enforcing unfamiliar forms of government on Indian peoples. Assimilation and recognition became a continuing problem, permeating every element of the relationship between Canada and the Indian peoples living within the land (Cassidy & Bish, 1989). According to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND), from Indian Self-Government in Canada: A Report of the Special Committee on Indian Self Government, titled "Setting the Stage," the main purposes of the Act were as follows,.
where we can get a better idea of the Indian's point of view. ... The only way for any of the Indians to survive was to summit. ... Killing millions of Indians that are out numbered and bound to lose is not a very strong act of heroism. ... The Anglos thought of the Indians as uneducated, savage, and uncivilized. ... also gives us a detailed image of what life was like for the Indians. ...
The Indian problem did not stop here. ... The difference conceptions of land use between white and Indian created so much misunderstanding of Indians. ... In 1887, the Dawes Allotment Act was passed to enable Indians to become self-supporting farmer, to assimilate, and to teach Indians the white man's ways , by owning, exploiting, and profiting from the lands. However, the Act had worked badly for the Indian. ... Allotment Act was to bring a rapid conclusion to the Indian problem, but it did not. ...
But some settlers saw the Indians as a threat. ... The Indians were chased and were pushed into a river. ... The Indians started to get tired and some drowned. ... Jackson, in 1830, pushed the legislation towards the "Indian Removal Act." This act gave the president power to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. ...
The Cherokee Indians of northwestern Georgia, to protect themselves from removal, made up a constitution which said that the Cherokee Indians were sovereign and not subject to the laws of Georgia. ... Andrew Jackson's decision to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River was a reformulation because it continued Washington's, Monroe's, and Jefferson's administration to acquire Indian land. ... According to Document A, the map shows the relationship between time and policies that effected the Indians. ... (Doc.O) In 1906 Jackson gave the Cherokee Indi...
The excuse of Manifest Destiny was used when the Indians were being removed from the Mississippi River area. ... This was a place made by the white Americans, west of the Mississippi River for the Indians to live. ... Around 1863, the Ute Indian tribe got a taste of this Manifest Destiny first hand. ... The whites sometimes did not even use any excuses, but just used brute force to move the Indians out. ... The Americans considered what the Indians did an act of war, but the next few years were ones of peace. ...
He was placed in the care of his friend, Indian Agent, Jesse M. ... Indian Removal Act of 1830 On May 26, 1830, the Indian Removal Act was passed by the Twenty-First Congress of the United States of America. ... The Cherokee Indian tribes of Georgia were the first to feel the effects of the Act. ... This would keep contact between Indians and colonists rare. ... Within 10 years of the Indian Removal Act, more than 70,000 Indians had moved across the Mississippi in what would become known as the "Trai...
Wallace focuses on the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Trail of Tears, the Indians of the Southeast took to what is now present day Oklahoma. ... When he became president of the United States, he had to make a decision on the Indian removal act. Andrew Jackson and the government were both divided over the whole question of an Indian Removable Act. ... Jackson enacted the Indian Removal Act in 1803 and signed it into the law which required all Indian tribes to leave and head west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory, reservations in what is now present day Oklahoma. ... The Long, B...
According to Baxter, when the bodies of Indians were designated as sinful and dirty it became a sin just to be Indian, which quickly became the stereotype to colonizers. ... The London directors instructed the settlers to, "deal," with the Indians by any means necessary, which started the notion that, "the only good Indian is a dead Indian," (Morgan 118). ... When the Indians attempted to fight back and rid themselves of the English occupier, it gave settlers a reason to go after the Indians. ... Thus, the Indians were cleared from the Jamestown area. ... The Trail of Tears...
His Indian name was Goyahkla [One Who Yawns] and his early years were spent as a typical youth of the Apache tribe. ... Many bought anything that belonged to the infamous Indian warrior, from a bow to a feather in his hat. ... They marveled at his peculiar reactions to a puppet show, or to a music act, or to Ferris wheel ride. People wanted him to act fierce or to threaten them but that was not Geronimo's style. ... To their surprise, a full-blown "Indian scare" was in progress. ...
