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A significant event in Indo-Canadian history occurred in 1950 when 25 years after settling in Canada and nine years after moving to British Columbia from Toronto, Naranjan "Giani" Singh Grewall became the first individual of Indian ancestry in Canada and North America to be elected to public office after successfully running for a position on ...
1876 The Indian Act, a Canadian statute that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves was first passed in 1876 and is still in force with amendments, it is the primary document which governs how the Canadian state interacts with the 614 Indian bands in Canada and their members. Throughout its long history the ...
The impact of settler colonialism in Canada can be seen in its culture, history, politics, laws, and legislatures. [13] This led to the systematic abolishment of Indigenous languages, traditions, religion and the degradation of Indigenous communities that has been described as a genocide of Indigenous peoples .
Indian Act; Indian agent (Canada) List of Indian massacres in North America; Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement; Indians of Canada Pavilion; Indigenous land claims in Canada; First Nations in Alberta; Indigenous specific land claims in Canada; Irataba; Iron Confederacy
The following is a partial list of First Nations peoples of Canada, organized by linguistic-cultural area. It only includes First Nations people, which by definition excludes Métis and Canadian Inuit groups. The areas used here are in accordance to those developed by the ethnologist and linguist Edward Sapir, and used by the Canadian Museum of ...
"Residential Schools in Canada: A Timeline" (2020) – Historica Canada (3:59min) Beginning in 1874 and lasting until 1996, [ 102 ] the Canadian government, in partnership with the dominant Christian Churches, [ 103 ] ran 130 residential boarding schools across Canada for Indigenous children, who were forcibly taken from their homes.
First Nations history in Canada (16 C, 89 P) Indigenous people of the French and Indian War (18 P) I. Indigenous conflicts in Canada (10 C, 61 P) Inuit history (5 C ...
In 1926, the Indian Defense League of America was formed by Chief Clinton Rickard of the Tuscarora Nation, with heavy involvement in US-Canada border crossing problems faced by "Indians" in both countries. Rickard organized an annual celebration to assert border crossing rights, Indian rights generally, and respect for the value and dignity of ...