Indian Policy and Legislation: Aboriginal Identity Survival in Canada

This article examines the socio‐historical construction of Indian policy and legislation as the processes set out to making the ‘Indian’ population legible to its rulers during the pre‐ and post‐confederation periods in Upper Canada. I aim to demonstrate how Indian policy and legislation materialise...

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Published in:Studies in ethnicity and nationalism 2011-12, Vol.11 (3), p.404-426
Main Author: Manzano-Munguía, Maria C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assimilation
Bargaining
Boarding schools
Canada
Colonialism
Cultural assimilation
Identity
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous populations
Legislation
Native peoples
North Amerindians
Policy making
Positioning
Resistance
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Summary:This article examines the socio‐historical construction of Indian policy and legislation as the processes set out to making the ‘Indian’ population legible to its rulers during the pre‐ and post‐confederation periods in Upper Canada. I aim to demonstrate how Indian policy and legislation materialised into concrete actions that attempted to assimilate, civilise, and protect the ‘Indians’ by deploying different instruments of control or governmentalities, such as the residential school and reserve system. Nonetheless, resistance and political positioning of Indigenous people is present, and post‐confederation Indian policymaking in Canada is a much more negotiated process.
ISSN:1473-8481
1754-9469
DOI:10.1111/j.1754-9469.2011.01145.x