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A 9 page overview of the history and impacts of the Canadian Indian Act. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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have suffered considerably as a result of societal misunderstandings, discrimination, misguided policies and counterproductive laws. Canadas Indian Act is one of those laws. First established in 1876, the
Indian Act granted federal authorities the power to regulate not just the lands that were occupied by the countrys indigenous peoples but the indigenous peoples themselves. Although the Indian
Act has been amended numerous times, it still stands as a law whose effect has been far more negative than it has been positive.
At the time of the so-called discovery of the lands we now know as Canada there were numerous aboriginal groups already well engrained here. These peoples were not
one people but they were a diversity of different cultural groups with a diversity of languages and lifeways. There were some consistencies across these cultural groups but there were
also many inconsistencies. Regardless of those inconsistencies these Native peoples became collectively known as "Indians" and later by a variety of other terms such as Native Americans, American Indians
or even First Peoples, according to the specific historical and political context. Initially, the federal government sought to eradicate the Native
peoples. This fact is substantiated in the literature itself. L.F.S. Uptons "The Origins of Canadian Indian Policy", for example, illustrates that historic Canadian relationship with indigenous inhabitants was
predicated upon the relative degree of usefulness the aboriginal presented to Canada. Upton (1973) presents the thesis that by 1814 Canadas indigenous peoples were no longer of any particular
value to Canada. Upton (1973, p. 296) contends, in fact, that the "only economic interest that the Empire had in the Indians was to arrange for the peaceful transfer
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