POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Indian Register, Numbered Treaties, Wampum
28 Feb 2019
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Week 10: indigenous relations - historical progression of. Aboriginal (as used in the constitution) - a descendant of any of the indigenous peoples who inhabited canada before the arrival of european settlers. Benefits for status: money for ammunition; hunting and fishing rights; tax free status; free post-secondary education ( requirement). Before 2014, only status indians receive benefits. Not every status indians who claims they have ( status) in them, gets money for secondary education. Chief is given money, who distributes it in community to kids who want to get secondary education. Today, inuits, non-status indians and metis also get benefits. Non-status: given up status forcingly or voluntarily, do not have access to their community. Before 1995 (bill c-31), allot of indigenous women who married non-status, had their status taken away from them (all benefits). If you have full status and marry someone who has at least half status, you have full status.
