Ever thought about the treaties and the Indian Act? Ever thought how it affirmed their collective rights? Well, they don’t really affirm collective rights, but then at the same time, they do. This essay is going to explain The Indian Act and the Treaties 6 and 7. It will review over all the facts and details to come to a conclusion if they do affirm collective rights. First, we’ll go over the Indian Act, the Treaty 6, and finish off with Treaty 7.
The Indian Act is a Canadian Federal law that governs in matters pertaining to Indian status, bands, and Indian reserves. The indian act is administered by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, or otherwise known as the INAC. The Indian Act is a part of a long history of assimilation policies that intended to terminate the cultural, social, economic, and political distinctiveness of Aboriginal peoples by absorbing them into Canadian life and values. The indian act also enabled to government to the land base of the groups, and determine who qualifies as Indian in form of the Indian status. But, since the Indian Act was put into action at such an early period of time, it had gone through a series of changes to try and affirm their collective rights they earned.From this information, it comes to a …show more content…
Rights, titles, privileges, and whatsoever was taken away as instructed to the terms of Treaty 6. But it was signed because of the disappearance of the buffalo in the areas, and of the disease that rolled through, killing many of the First Nations in the area of Treaty 6. One of the benefits to Treaty 6, is that the first nations got a medicine chest to stay for in urgent times. The government did better at affirming collective rights with treaty 6, but they’ll need to try