CRM 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Indian Act, Saskatoon Freezing Deaths
3 Mar 2017
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Rate of imprisonment for aboriginals per 100 thousand, its 14 thousand. Colonial projects of euro canadians: signing treaties so transferring large tracks of lands over to the government. Technologies were crafted and then employed to manage, govern, and kill aboriginal people. Signing the treaties was one of those technologies. 9 treaties were signed between the government and the aboriginals. There were two categories that these treaties fell under which were taking the lands and taking the resources of the lands. They needed the lands for settlers and to bring in the settlers they needed resources. The capitalist economy in europe needed to boost the economy, which is another reason they took the land. Passage of the indian act 1876: after the treaties, the next thing they did was enact this act. This defined who was an indian, what kind of status they could have and such. For example, if a woman married a non-indian, they would lose their indian status.
