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Indian Act

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a federal act governing Indian affairs, first passed in 1876 and revised in 1951.

See: Indian Register,treaty Indian,First Nation,specific land claim,status,non-status,assimilation,blood quantum,Bill C-31,self-government

Quotations

1878

On the 24th ult., Basil Lafonde was convicted before the Stipendiary Magistrate of having given liquor to an Indian, contrary to the "Indian Act."

1886

The Dominion Government in a cast-iron act had decided how we should be managed and anything coming in court was regulated by it, "The Indian Act," an act absurdly made in every particular, to apply to the uncivilized pagan tribes, as well as to the civilized and Christian bands of this Province.

1964

. . . Quebec's inhabitants unless they were Indians . . . did not come under the Indian Act.