Indian Act Important Terms Definitions By Liam

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  1. 2. A way of controlling the movement of Indigenous peoples.
  2. 7. The legal standing of a person of a person who is registered as an Indian under the Indian Act.
  3. 8. Aboriginal peoples of Canada who are ethnically neither Metis nor Inuit.
  4. 11. Land set aside by the Canadian government to be used by First Nation.
  5. 12. The primary law the federal government used to administer Indian status, local First Nations, and the management of reserve land.
  6. 14. Rights that the Indigenous peoples of Canada are intitled to.
  7. 17. A legal process for terminating a person’s Indian status and conferring full Canadian citizenship.
  8. 19. Land that Indigenous peoples claim was wrongly taken from them.
  9. 20. A gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples in the Pacific-Northwest.
  10. 21. Agreements made between the Government of Canada, Indigenous groups, and often provinces and territories that define ongoing rights and obligations.
  11. 22. The leaders of Canadian First Nations based on Primogeniture.
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  1. 1. The national government of Canada.
  2. 3. A change or addition designed to improve a text or piece of legislation.
  3. 4. The federal department that managed First Nations – Crown relations and First Nation land.
  4. 5. Peoples of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry (usually French).
  5. 6. A Canadian government policy paper that attempted to abolish previous legal documents relating to Indigenous peoples in Canada, including the Indian Act and treaties.
  6. 9. A series of post-Confederation treaties made to manage First Nations and their land.
  7. 10. Government sponsored religious schools that were meant to assimilate Indigenous children into Canadian culture.
  8. 13. The Aboriginal peoples who inhabit the Arctic of Canada.
  9. 15. A ceremony practiced by some Indigenous peoples in the plains.
  10. 16. The government agents who were employed by the DIA.
  11. 18. The legislative branch of the Canadian government.