what is and what year: Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP)
what year, what was: Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement
2005 -
Compensate the survivors individually and additional funding for Aboriginal Healing Foundation
what year, what was: Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
2008 - Traveled across the country and gathered 94 calls to action to help right the wrongs of residential sschools
Ex. Phyllis Webstad started Orange Shirt day
How many Calls to Action did the TRC collect?
94
how many aprox missing children are there?
4,000
how many children were found in kamloops?
aprox 215
What is, what year: Bill C-31
1985 -
- Was used to ammend the Indian Act to conform
with the equality rights guaranteed by s.15 of the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter). - The amendments allowed women who previously lost their Indian
Status to regain their status, as well as their children’s status.
3.marriage
could no longer affect his or her receiving or losing Indian status.
how did Bill C-31 affect indigenous women?
- Indian women, who married a non-Indian man, no longer lost their Indian status
- The amendments allowed women who previously lost their Indian Status to regain their status, as well as their children’s status.
- non-Indian women could no longer get Indian status by marrying Indian men (cases before 1985 remained, did not lose)
- the process of enfranchisement was completely removed.
5.individuals, who were voluntarily or involuntarily enfran-
chised under the Indian Act before, were allowed to apply
for the return of their Indian status.
Issues with Bill C-31
the amendments created new forms of sex-based discrimination
Second generation CUT OFF -rule that cuts off eligibility for status registration after two consecutive generations of parenting with a non-status person.
in Bill C-31, what is 6(1) and 6(2)
2 Classes of “Indian”
6(1) - those who can pass Indian status to their children
6(2) - those who have Indian status, but cannot pass their status to their children unless the other parent is also has status
what section of Bill C-31 was band membership?
10 & 11
