POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Indian Register, First Nations, Treaty 1
5 Mar 2018
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Insatiable scalp hunters clearly sounds you would never notice: a strange race, wolf-eyed, stiller than trees. Increase in people identifying as aboriginal: not necessarily more aboriginal people, just more people. Identity is what you want it to be feel proud of their aboriginal heritage. Incarceration rate: ten times in the aboriginal population than in the non. Inuit: 270 times as likely to have tuberculosis 7% of children are aboriginal and 52% of them are in foster care. Challenges to aboriginal self-government: ottawa recognizes 615 first nations, status indians: 637,000 (49% live on reserves, 2700 reserves, 2/3 in bc and uninhabited, reserves = approx. Scotia: most reserves: fewer than 1000 people, largest reserve 20,000 pop. , smallest 2 pop, human and financial resources lacking. Aboriginal: first nations, metis, all of these are status indians, the constitution recognizes aboriginal rights but does not. Inuit specify what they are: subsequently rights are mainly established by case law.
