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The Indian Register is the official record of people registered under the Indian Act in Canada, called status Indians or registered Indians. [nb 1] People registered under the Indian Act have rights and benefits that are not granted to other First Nations people, Inuit, or Métis, the chief benefits of which include the granting of reserves and of rights associated with them, an extended ...
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was a royal commission undertaken by the Government of Canada in 1991 to address issues of the Indigenous peoples of Canada. [151] It assessed past government policies toward Indigenous people, such as residential schools, and provided policy recommendations to the government. [152]
However, in the reverse situation, if a status Indian man married a woman who was not a status Indian, the man would keep his status and his children would also receive treaty status. In the 1970s, the Indian Rights for Indian Women and Native Women's Association of Canada groups campaigned against this policy because it discriminated against ...
UNDRIP was passed by the UN General Assembly in 2007, with Canada voting against it under a Conservative government. [9] In November 2010, the Conservative government publicly reversed its position, asserting its support for the declaration as an "aspirational document" [10] In May 2016, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett officially removed Canada's objector status to UNDRIP ...
Listed by Statistics Canada as self-government Mayo 6 [281] First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun: Northern Tutchone — n/a: 184.5 455.9: Mcquesten 3 [282] First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun: Northern Tutchone — n/a: 129.6 320.2: Moosehide Creek 2 [283] Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in: Hän — n/a: 64.1 158.4: 0: 0: Listed by Statistics Canada as self-government ...
A tribal council is an association of First Nations bands in Canada, generally along regional, ethnic or linguistic lines. [1] An Indian band, usually consisting of one main community, is the fundamental unit of government for First Nations in Canada. Bands may unite to form a tribal council, but they need not do so.
In 1876, the Indian Act, which remains the major expression of federal jurisdiction in this area, was passed and a series of treaties [7] were concluded between Canada and the various Indian bands across the country. The responsibility for Indian Affairs and Northern Development rested with various government departments between 1873 and 1966.
An ISC service centre in Brantford, Ontario. Indigenous Services Canada (ISC; French: Services aux Autochtones Canada; SAC) [NB 1] is one of two departments in the Government of Canada with responsibility for policies relating to Indigenous peoples in Canada (the other being Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada).