HIST 3711 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Numbered Treaties, Potlatch, Lower Canada
5 Apr 2016
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Indian act: a federal statute that governs the afairs of those legally recognized as. Indians. the act has its origins in legislaion passed in 1850 in upper and lower. Canada, and vested indigenous lands in the crown. The schools were one aspect of an atempt to civilize the first naions people. Treaies, including numbered treaies (1871-1921: treaies would give government the right to use the land, at the end of the 19th century the government would go against what was originally agreed upon in the treaty. Wanted to civilize people who were portrayed as savage. Not only were these insituions intended to inculcate certain behaviours and. Morals, but they were also designed to erase ethnic idenity: they were not about simply remaking individual idenity, but also about destroying the tradiions, pracices, beliefs, languages, communiies, and family ies of first naions peoples. Rested on what was called aggressive civilizaion or forced assimilaion.
