Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Canada's First Nation's (Oka Crisis (Advantages (Overall, the…
Canada's First Nation's
Oka Crisis
Advantages
Overall, the crisis made more Canadians aware of Aboriginal rights and land claims; it also illustrated the potential for future conflict if such claims were not resolved in a timely, transparent, and just manner.
Disadvantages
despite protests that the land included a burial ground, the Mohawk claim was rejected and the golf course was built.
Purpose
The crisis developed from a local dispute between the town of Oka and the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, Quebec.
Effect
After the crisis had ended, the government purchased a number of additional plots of land for Kanesatake.
Ipperwash Crisis
Purpose
The Ipperwash Crisis was an Indigenous land dispute that took place in Ipperwash Provincial Park, Ontario in 1995
-
Disadvantages
It took 8 years before a public inquiry into the events leading up to George’s death began. During the raid, an unarmed Ojibwa man named Dudley George was shot to death by an OPP
sniper.
-
Indian Act
Purpose
The Indian Act in Canada, in this respect, is much more than a body of laws that for over a century have controlled every aspect of Indian life.
Advantages
The Indian Act has enabled the government to determine the land base of these groups in the form of reserves, and even to define who qualifies as Indian in the form of Indian status.
Effect
The outlawing of the potlatch severely disrupted these cultural traditions, although many groups continued to potlatch. One of the most famous displays of resistance was an underground potlatch hosted by ‘Namgis Chief Dan Cranmer in Alert Bay.
Disadvatages
The Indian Act gave power to the federal government and its representatives, like the Indian Agent, to implement and enforce policies such as needing a pass to leave the reserve.
Creation of Nunavut
-
Disadvantages
Due to the challenges of vast distances, a small but growing population, the high cost of materials and labour, and extreme climate make it costly to maintain Canada's high standards of living in Nunavut.
Purpose
Nunavut separated from the Northwest Territories to become the newest Canadian territory. The creation of Nunavut was the outcome of the largest aboriginal land claims agreement between the Canadian government and the native Inuit people.
Advantages
The discovery of oil in the northern regions of Canada during the 1960s and 1970s stimulated aboriginal groups to bring several land claims against the Alaskan and Canadian governments
60's Scoop
-
Disadvantages
This experience left many adoptees with a lost sense of cultural identity. The physical and emotional separation from their birth families continues to affect adult adoptees and Indigenous communities to this day. poverty, high death rates and socio-economic barriers.
Purpose
children of Aboriginal people in Canada from their families for placing in foster homes or adoption beginning in the 1960s and continuing until the late 1980s.
Effect
On 1 February 2017, the Canadian government announced that it was ready to negotiate a settlement to the $1.3 billion class-action lawsuit .
Residential Schools
Purpose
Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-
Canadian culture.
-
Disadvantages
Residential schools disrupted lives and communities, causing long-term problems among Indigenous peoples.
Effect
The devastating effects of the residential schools and the particular needs and life experiences of Aboriginal students were becoming more widely recognized.
-