Causes, issues, and groups involved
The conflict with the aboriginal people of Canada is seen to have begun with the official Indian Act of 1875. However for decades prior to the Indian Act the population of Canada had been aiming to get the indigenous population to assimilate to the new, more modern European settler lifestyle and cultural ideals. Prior to the Indian Act, there was the Gradual Citizens act which was passed in 1857. These laws and acts became the basis of the modern Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada.
The Gradual Citizen Act has been viewed as the true predecessor and primary cause of the Indian Act of 1876 and as the start many similar racist laws. These laws were built around the idea of enfranchisement of the
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The Indian Act of 1876 and impart the events that followed are the chief causes of the modern day truth and reconciliation commission. The origins of the Indian act was brought further into consideration predominantly by the influential Roman-Catholic church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada. Soon after the push for the Indian Act from the church the act was made law by the Canadian Government due the informal lack of separation between the churches at state. While there are many different effects from the Indian act of 1876 there most predominant and lasting effect was the forced attendance for school for aboriginal minors. This act made into the law anyone under the age of 21 to attend schools which were often mandated by the Canadian church system. There were three types of schooling offered, including a day school, industrial school, and residential school. However while day school, industrial school or residential school were all offered, a residential school in many/most cases was the only viable option for the families. While these schools did teach the basics of education including math, rudimentary science, and language, these schools were still seen and immoral and unjust. This poor imagine derived from the fact that the schools were controlled by the church and not by the government, therefore meaning that religion was forced upon the minor aboriginal population for the purpose of assimilation. These schools were also viewed as immoral because that separated the minor population from their families. This separation came from the lack of day and industrial schools being built by the government, meaning that the minor population was forced to travel to residential schools. RESTATE Other negative effects of the Indian Act included gender discrimination, limited to access to the court system and finally
Canada is considered a relatively peaceful country that has little conflict with foreign countries world wide. Although Canada has peaceful foreign relations, its biggest conflicts come internally with the Aboriginal population. The Aboriginal people of Canada were the first people to reside in Canada, but as European settlers arrived they were quickly pushed off of their lands. Aboriginal people have had constant conflict with the colonizing population ever since white European settlers colonized Canada. Many Canadian citizens are unaware of the atrocities that were committed against Aboriginal people by these European settlers.
The indigenous population in the geographical location of western Canada had their land officially taken over in 1869. (Daschuk 79) From then on, even with multiple treaties signed, the aboriginal people in this area and on the plains were ravaged with disease, fighting, famine and theft of land from the Canadian government. In this paper, I will first present a summary of James Daschuk’s two chapters outlining the issues stated above, and then an internal critique of the chapters, and, finally, an external critique of the chapters, comparing and contrasting it to Sidney Harring’s ““There Seemed to Be No Recognized Law”: Canadian Law and the Prairie First Nations’. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight and analysis on the aboriginal issues raised by Daschuk.
This act was brought up to force Native Americans to assimilate white Americans. It was passed during the presidency of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. It was an act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations.
Many Native children were taken by forced from their families and were submitted for a long time into residential schools. It was
The main idea of this legislation was to acquire more land in order to satisfy the southerners hunger for expansion. In the text, it stated, “nations of Indians may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there”. Essentially,
The Bureau of Indian Affairs removed tens of thousands of American Indian children from their homes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to assimilate the youth into the dominant Euro-American culture. Although the schools provided education and vocational training, their primary intention was to deprive Indian children of their tribal culture, language, and appearance. There was a significant amount of abuse in the boarding schools with administrators, teachers, and staff often treating students harshly, including physical and sexual abuse and neglect. Moreover, children suffered serious illnesses and disease. Due to these harsh conditions many Indian youth returned home with mental and physical health problems that transcended for
Would you disregard the lives of thousands of people for wealth and power? That is what Andrew Jackson did when he endorsed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. This act resulted in the forced migration of several tribes from the southeastern region of the United States. Jackson believed that this was the best way to protect the indians from being scattered and destroyed. He claimed that gaining more land for the white settlers would increase economic progress.
It also took away the tribal ownership of most tribes. The act moved Indian families onto their own land, and took away Indian children away from their families and sent them to boarding
Railroad Strike of 1877 1877 In the late nineteenth century, the railroad industry was booming. But it’s growth was followed by labor arguments, including the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. This strike was the first major rail strike, and it was disputed with enough violence to bring in various state militias. The Strike began when northern railroads cut salaries and wages because they still felt the impact of the Panic of 1873.
The land you live on today is legally the land of the United States. But did you ever stop to think who this land belongs to before it came in the hands of the U.S? Well, of course not. Its because the Indians whose lives and souls were once dedicated to this very land have been pushed into mini little reservations without a single consent from their side. This all happened due to the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which was brought to the attention of Congress in a special meeting by President Andrew Jackson.
Essay Outline The human race that inhabited the lands earlier than anyone else, Aboriginals in Canada had conquered many obstacles which got them to what they are today. In the past, Canadian Aboriginals have dealt with many gruesome issues that primarily involved the Canadians opposing them or treating them like ‘‘wards.’’ The Indian Act is a written law which controls the Indian’s lives and it is often amended several times to make Indian lives either peaceful or cruel but especially, cruel. Aboriginals found the Indian Act a massive problem in their lives due to it completely controlling them and how they lived on their reserve.
The power dynamic between these groups led to the suffering of Indigenous People, demonstrated in the novel Five Little Indians by Michelle Good. The residential schools then further reinforced the Canadian government's assimilationist policies. By forcing Indigenous People to conform to "normal'' European society, resulted in unrepairable damage between the two
This act would remove all of the Indians from “The land of the United States” and send them off to reservations mainly in Oklahoma. Document 6 shows the map of south western modern day United states and has lines all pointing to one area, the lines of course representing the Indians. This act was completely against the ideal of democracy. Remember that democracy is all for the people and the people having the power. Apparently the Indians weren’t people and they were completely abandoned and looked at as a waste of space and resources.
In order to control even more the natives, another Indian Appropriation Act was passed in 1871. It said that Indian tribes were no longer seen as an indepedent nation but that all Indians were just individuals, like everyone. But also that they were "wards" of the federal government. This obviously made the natives less powerful, because as a tribe, they were numerous so they had more power and they could have treaties with the government. But with the act, it did not work anymore.
The government believed that if the children remained with their parents the problems would only increase, with the boarding schools it would make it easier to cut off their culture and religions. They decided it was best to christianize the children making almost every boarding schools either christian or catholic. The Native American kids were forced into going to church two to three times a day. It was against the