1. ABORIGINAL PEOPLES IN VICTORIAN CANADA

2. Queen Victoria
Attitude and behavior set the standard in British Empire.
Advancements in technology and medicine  not all benefited

3. Victorian Times: How did people view Indians?
Positive
Negative
Warrior
Noble
Strong
Smart
Savage
Animal
Uncivilized

4. Land Issues
Forced onto Reserves as European Immigration and settlement occurred
Reserves: tract of land to be used for the benefit of a band.

5. 1857 Gradual Civilization Act
Assimilation was the goal:
by making Aboriginals citizens
Full citizenship is called enfranchisement
If they became citizens, they would lose their rights they’d already attained (treaty rights, protected status)

6. Indian Act 1876 Defined “who was an Indian”
What rights they had in Canada
Made Aboriginal Peoples the “responsibility” or “wards” of the government
: the act stated any woman who marry indian is indian any indian woman marry white is white. Resources could be taken away from reserves for the purpose of the queen. Had to carry around status card in and out of reserves.

7. 1885 Ceremonies banned
Ceremonies and rituals such as the Potlatch and Sundance are made illegal

8. Residential Schools
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9. Residential Schooling

10. Common Rules For failing a test - no food for a day
For disobedience, and rude or disorderly conduct - no food or water for a day, a beating (with a stick on the back), extra garden work
For speaking first language - (first offence) no supper - (second offence) no supper and beating
* For going off by yourself (without another student present) - several hours of kneeling alone on a rock floor where all can see.

11. Residential Schooling
Children were taken away to schools run by various churches and funded by the government
First Nations languages were prohibited; along with traditional religious practices were forbidden

13. Dr. Duncan Campbell Scott - 1920
I want to get rid of the Indian problem. Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian question, and no Indian Department...”

14. T/P/S Identify the stereotypes being used

15. St Paul’s IRS (North Vancouver)

17. Residential Schooling
Sexual and physical abuse common
Last school did not close until 1990s
When they got out, many did not find acceptance in cities and felt unconnected to their own communities
Legacy of abuse remained

18. 60’s scoop  children still taken away from their homes as parents were seen as unfit

19. What responsibility does the current Canadian government have to address this injustice of the past?
What should/could be done?

20. http://www. cbc. ca/doczone/8thfire//2011/11/in digenious-in-the-city
digenious-in-the-city.html