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68 relations: Aboriginal Protection Act 1869, Agriculture, Australia, Étienne-Paschal Taché, Band government, Billiard hall, Blood quantum laws, Bonita Lawrence, Canada (AG) v Lavell, Canadian Aboriginal law, Canadian Bill of Rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian Confederation, Canadian Indian residential school system, Canadian Prairies, Clan, Constitution Act, 1867, Constitution Act, 1982, Corbiere v Canada (Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs), Dakota people, Fiduciary, First Nations, First Nations Governance Act, Frank Oliver (politician), George III of the United Kingdom, Gerry St. Germain, Government of Canada, Gradual Civilization Act, Half-Caste Act, Indian agent (Canada), Indian Health Transfer Policy, Indian Register, Indian reserve, Indian Reserve (1763), Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous self-government in Canada, Inuit, Jobs and Growth Act, John A. Macdonald, Kruger v R, Maliseet, Matrilineality, Métis, Michel Band, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, New Brunswick, Non-status Indian, Numbered Treaties, Parliament of the Province of Canada, ..., Pasture, Peter Hogg, Potlatch, Potlatch ban, R v Drybones, R v Jim, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Royal Proclamation of 1763, Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 25 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Status of First Nations treaties in British Columbia, Sun Dance, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Supreme Court of Canada, The Canadian Crown and Indigenous peoples of Canada, United Nations Human Rights Committee, 1969 White Paper. Expand index (18 more) »
Aboriginal Protection Act 1869
The Aboriginal Protection Act, enacted in 1869 by the colony of Victoria, Australia gave extensive powers over the lives of Aboriginal people to the government's Board for the Protection of Aborigines, including regulation of residence, employment and marriage.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Étienne-Paschal Taché
Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché (5 September 1795 – 30 July 1865) was a Canadian doctor, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.
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Band government
In Canada, an Indian band or band, sometimes referred to as a First Nation band or simply a First Nation, is the basic unit of government for those peoples subject to the Indian Act (i.e. Status Indians or First Nations).
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Billiard hall
A billiard/billiards, pool or snooker hall (or '''parlour'''/'''parlor''', room or club; sometimes compounded as poolhall, poolroom, etc.) is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards.
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Blood quantum laws
Blood quantum laws or Indian blood laws are those enacted in the United States and the former colonies to define qualification by ancestry as Native American, sometimes in relation to tribal membership.
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Bonita Lawrence
Bonita Lawrence (Mi’kmaq) is a professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada.
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Canada (AG) v Lavell
Canada (AG) v Lavell, S.C.R. 1349, was a landmark 5–4 Supreme Court of Canada decision holding that Section 12(1)(b) of the Indian Act did not violate the respondents' right to "equality before the law" under Section 1 (b) of the Canadian Bill of Rights.
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Canadian Aboriginal law
Canadian Aboriginal law is the body of Canadian law that concerns a variety of issues related to Indigenous peoples in Canada.
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Canadian Bill of Rights
The Canadian Bill of Rights (Déclaration canadienne des droits) is a federal statute and bill of rights enacted by Parliament of Canada on August 10, 1960.
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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés), in Canada often simply the Charter, is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada.
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Canadian Confederation
Canadian Confederation (Confédération canadienne) was the process by which the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into one Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867.
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Canadian Indian residential school system
In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples.
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Canadian Prairies
The Canadian Prairies is a region in Western Canada, which may correspond to several different definitions, natural or political.
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Clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.
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Constitution Act, 1867
The Constitution Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 3 (U.K.), R.S.C. 1985, App.
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Constitution Act, 1982
The Constitution Act, 1982 (Schedule B of the Parliament of the United Kingdom's Canada Act 1982) is a part of the Constitution of Canada.
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Corbiere v Canada (Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs)
Corbiere v Canada (Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs) 1999 2 S.C.R. 203, is a leading case from the Supreme Court of Canada where the Court expanded the scope of applicable grounds upon which a section 15(1) Charter claim can be based.
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Dakota people
The Dakota people are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America.
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Fiduciary
A fiduciary is a person who holds a legal or ethical relationship of trust with one or more other parties (person or group of persons).
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First Nations
In Canada, the First Nations (Premières Nations) are the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle.
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First Nations Governance Act
The First Nations Governance Act was a legislative initiative proposed by the government of Canada in 2002 to reform the country's Indian Act.
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Frank Oliver (politician)
Francis "Frank" Oliver (born Francis Robert Oliver Bowsfield; September 1, 1853 – March 31, 1933) was a Canadian federal minister, politician and journalist from old Northwest Territories, and later Alberta, Canada.
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George III of the United Kingdom
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.
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Gerry St. Germain
Gerry St.
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Government of Canada
The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.
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Gradual Civilization Act
The Act to Encourage the Gradual Civilization of Indian Tribes in this Province, and to Amend the Laws Relating to Indians (commonly known as the Gradual Civilization Act) was a bill passed by the 5th Parliament of the Province of Canada in 1857.
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Half-Caste Act
Half-Caste Act was the common name given to Acts of Parliament passed in Victoria and Western Australia in 1886.
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Indian agent (Canada)
Indian agent is the title of a position in Canada mandated by the Indian Act of that country.
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Indian Health Transfer Policy
The Indian Health Transfer Policy of Canada, provided a framework for the assumption of control of health services by Aboriginal Canadians and set forth a developmental approach to transfer centred on the concept of self-determination in health.
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Indian Register
The Indian Register is the official record of Status Indians or Registered Indians in Canada.
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Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve (réserve indienne) is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." First Nations reserves are the areas set aside for First Nations people after a contract with the Canadian state ("the Crown"), and are not to be confused with land claims areas, which involve all of that First Nations' traditional lands: a much larger territory than any other reserve.
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Indian Reserve (1763)
The Indian Reserve is a historical term for the largely uncolonized area in North America acquired by Great Britain from France through the Treaty of Paris (1763) at the end of the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in the North American theatre), and set aside in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 for use by American Indians, who already inhabited it.
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
The Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND), referred to by its applied title under the Federal Identity Program as Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), (Affaires autochtones et du Nord Canada), is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for policies relating to Aboriginal peoples in Canada, that comprise the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis.
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Indigenous peoples in Canada
Indigenous peoples in Canada, also known as Native Canadians or Aboriginal Canadians, are the indigenous peoples within the boundaries of present-day Canada.
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Indigenous self-government in Canada
Indigenous or Aboriginal self-government refers to proposals to give governments representing the Indigenous peoples in Canada greater powers of government.
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Inuit
The Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "the people") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska.
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Jobs and Growth Act
The Jobs and Growth Act, 2012 (informally referred to as Bill C-45) (the Act) is an Act of the Parliament of Canada.
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John A. Macdonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891).
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Kruger v R
Kruger v R, 1 S.C.R. 104, was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada on the relationship between the Indian Act and provincial game laws.
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Maliseet
The Wolastoqiyik, or Maliseet (also spelled Malecite), are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
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Matrilineality
Matrilineality is the tracing of descent through the female line.
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Métis
The Métis are members of ethnic groups native to Canada and parts of the United States that trace their descent to indigenous North Americans and European settlers.
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Michel Band
The Michel Band also called the Michel Caillehoo, Michel Caillehouis, Michel Caillehow, Michel Calahoo, Michel Calistrois, or Michel Calliho Band was a group of "Indians" (First Nations people) united under a band government.
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Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs
The Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs is one of two Ministers of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet responsible for overseeing the federal Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and administering the Indian Act and other legislation dealing with "Indians and lands reserved for the Indians" under subsection 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867.
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation) is one of three Maritime provinces on the east coast of Canada.
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Non-status Indian
In Canada, a non-status Indian is a legal term referring to any First Nations individual who for whatever reason is not registered with the federal government, or is not registered to a band which signed a treaty with the Crown.
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Numbered Treaties
The Numbered Treaties (or Post-Confederation Treaties) are a series of eleven treaties signed between the Aboriginal peoples in Canada (or First Nations) and the reigning monarch of Canada (Victoria, Edward VII or George V) from 1871 to 1921.
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Parliament of the Province of Canada
The Parliament of the Province of Canada was the legislature for the United Province of Canada, made up the two regions of Canada West (formerly Upper Canada, later Ontario) and Canada East (formerly Lower Canada, later Quebec).
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Pasture
Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.
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Peter Hogg
Peter Wardell Hogg, (born March 12, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, author and legal scholar.
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Potlatch
A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Potlatch in Anthropology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., vol 17, pp.
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Potlatch ban
The potlatch ban, was legislation forbidding the practice of the potlatch passed by the Government of Canada, begun in 1885 and lasting until 1951.
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R v Drybones
R v Drybones, S.C.R. 282, is a landmark 6-3 Supreme Court of Canada decision holding that the Canadian Bill of Rights "empowered the courts to strike down federal legislation which offended its dictates." Accordingly, the Supreme Court of Canada held that section 94(b) of the Indian Act (which prohibited "Indians" from being intoxicated off of a reserve) is inoperative because it violates section 1(b) of the Canadian Bill of Rights.
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R v Jim
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) was a Canadian Royal Commission established in 1991 to address many issues of Aboriginal status that had come to light with recent events such as the Oka Crisis and the Meech Lake Accord.
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Royal Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.
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Sandra Lovelace Nicholas
Mary Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, CM (born April 15, 1948) is a Wolastoqiyik or Maliseet Canadian senator representing New Brunswick.
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Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms contains guaranteed equality rights.
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Section 25 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Section 25 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the first section under the heading "General" in the Charter, and like other sections within the "General" sphere, it aids in the interpretation of rights elsewhere in the Charter.
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Status of First Nations treaties in British Columbia
The status of the First Nations, Aboriginal people of British Columbia (BC), Canada, is a long-standing problem that has become a major issue in recent years.
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Sun Dance
The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced by some Indigenous people of United States of America and Canada, primarily those of the Plains cultures.
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Supreme Court of British Columbia
The Supreme Court of British Columbia (BCSC) is the superior trial court for the province of British Columbia, Canada.
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Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada (Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada, the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system.
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The Canadian Crown and Indigenous peoples of Canada
The association between the Canadian Crown and Indigenous peoples of Canada stretches back to the first decisions between North American Indigenous peoples and European colonialists and, over centuries of interface, treaties were established concerning the monarch and Indigenous tribes.
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United Nations Human Rights Committee
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a United Nations body of 18 experts that meets three times a year for four-week sessions (spring session at UN headquarters in New York, summer and fall sessions at the UN Office in Geneva) to consider the five-yearly reports submitted by 169 UN member states on their compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ICCPR, and any individual petitions concerning 116 States parties to the Optional Protocol.
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1969 White Paper
The 1969 White Paper was a proposed Canadian government policy on Indigenous peoples.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Act
