NATV 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Indian Act
22 Apr 2019
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Treaties are nation to nation agreements: officially carved in stone documents. They stand as they are written one side cannot change: if they want to change they need to renegotiate. Language used in treaties was hard to understand. How do you change the act: go through the whole process again (can take months, changed by the house following this procedure. Then how was the indian act sometimes amended in mere hours: this happened ~300 times, reasons for these changes: the indians were sneaky", they had to stop them from doing things. Feds saw treaties as legal means to take land for purposes of the dominion". Not expected that indians" would understand the process. Not expected that indians" would realize text only was legal. No promises, discussions, agreements not in text accepted. Progress used indian" oral process but text was only legal part.
