CRI365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indian Act, Summary Offence, Racialization
29 May 2017
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Indigenous peoples and criminal justice lecture 2. Indian act a way for the government of canada to do something federally, that it had done prior to that through small legislations. Federal that is from the legal history of royal proclamation, indian act a federal law. Legislation creates the role of the minister who is responsible for making decisions, indigenous and northern affairs, Creation of surveys, reaction of those to the survey, indian act shaped this process of land transfer, it didn"t work out how canadian government wanted it to. Elizabeth exert policing text of indigenous communities in winnipeg, zones in on indian act as a form of criminalization, fines and criminal provisions for infringement of the act within the act. Indian agents were essentially like judges reinforcing the indian act. Outlawed sun dance and traditional spiritual practices across canada. Section on criminalization crime is a social construct and how this idea changes over time.
