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Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Minister of Indian Affairs, Jean Chrétien, issued the paper in 1969. The White Paper proposed to abolish all legal documents that had previously existed, including (but not limited to) the Indian Act, and all existing treaties within Canada, comprising Canadian Aboriginal law. It proposed to assimilate ...
The White and Red Papers served as an impetus for the collaborative effort of the federal government and Indigenous peoples to begin serious planning for the future. [ 4 ] This resulted in the 1975 paper, The Canadian Government/The Canadian Indian Relationships, which defined a policy framework for strengthening the control of programs and ...
In 1969, Denny, alongside Joe B. Marshall, Noel Doucette, Greg Johnson and Stan Johnson, established the UNSI in response to the 1969 White Paper. [1] The goal of the white paper was to establish equality between Indigenous peoples and Canadians by eliminating the legislated difference between the two groups which would include "abolishing the Indian Act, phasing out the treaties, and ...
McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award; Mica Bay incident; Michif language; Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs (Manitoba) Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (Canada) Missing and murdered Indigenous women; Mitchell v. M.N.R. Models of migration to the New World; Mokotakan; Meech Lake Accord; Métis people ...
The Aborigines Act 1969 was an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales that repealed the Aborigines Protection Act 1909, and alongside other regulations relating to Aboriginals in New South Wales. In 1983, the Act was repealed by the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 .
Trudeau acknowledged the White Paper as a failure and admitted "We had perhaps the prejudices of small "l" liberals and white men at that who thought that equality meant the same law for everybody." [8] The White Paper was officially withdrawn in 1973 as marked by the Supreme Court Case Calder v British Columbia, in which Canadian law ...
The chiefs claimed the land, by virtue of their aboriginal rights, and sought to prevent the construction of the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. The territorial government referred the caveat to the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories. Justice William Morrow, the only sitting judge of that court at the time, held a six-week hearing ...
R v Marshall; R v Bernard 2005 SCC 43 is a leading Aboriginal rights decision of the Supreme Court of Canada where the Court narrowed the test from R. v. Marshall for determining the extent of constitutional protection upon Aboriginal practices.