AHSS*4070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sui Generis, Aboriginal Title, Indian Register
Document Summary
Indian act: enacted 1867, government control over most aspects of aboriginal life, including: Indian status: education, residential schools, cultural ceremonies. Inuits and metis not governed by this act. Genocide by assimilation residential schools to eliminate their indianness removed from family & culture: placed in schools that were health hazards. Background the aboriginal people were entitled to have sovereignty over the lands they occupied: no treaty gave other countries the right" to determine their fate, or to conquer their land. The principles of recognition and reconciliation applied: crown had obligation to protect aboriginal people, their environmental rights & livelihood. Aboriginal title encompasses the right to choose what uses land can be put to, subject to the ultimate limit that those uses cannot destroy the ability of the land to sustain future generations of. Aboriginal peoples : use of aboriginal lands is tied to their present & future survival.
