Question

1. why was the Indian department created

2. what is a Wampum belt? What is its significance in the treaty process?
3. What were the findings of the Bagot Commission? What were the long-term consequences of this commission?
4. what was the goal of the government?
5. how did the Canadian government determine who was indigenous?
6. who were the clan mothers? What was their purpose? How did the indian act impact them?
7. which country based its apartheid system on Canada's assimilation policies?
8. Despite its problems, why do many indigenous people not want to abolish the Indian Act?

Answer 1

2Wampum belts are of particular significance with regards to treaties and covenants made between Indigenous peoples and European colonial powers. Indigenous peoples living along the coast collected the shells, produced the beads, and traded them in-land, for example to the Haudenosaunee,

4 The purpose of government is to provide essential services, fulfill the fundamental duties of safety, prosperity, and justice, ensure the rights of each human and protect the country so that its citizens, businesses, and organizations have the ability the pursue happiness, live a healthy life, and chase opportunities. for furs, corns, beans and squash. 3

Initiated by the assimilationist Bagot Commission (1842–44), these laws defined what constituted native identity, mandated that individuals carry only one legal status (e.g., aboriginal or citizen), prohibited the sale of alcohol to native peoples, and shifted the administration of native affairs from the British Colonial Office to Canada.

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