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23.4.14

Kanehsatake: Mohawk Warriors face Canadian-style colonialism | Colours of Resistance Archive: Indigenous people in Canada are around 4.4% of the population, according to Statistics Canada’s 2001 census. To a large extent, their lives are still controlled by the Indian Act. This Act, though it has been amended, was designed to be, and still remains, an instrument for trying to get indigenous people to relinquish their land rights, their culture, and languages. Its first incarnation was passed by the British House of Commons in 1857, its second by the Dominion of Canada in 1876. The 1876 version made it illegal for an ‘Indian’ to sell or produce goods, or even to leave a reservation, without written permission from an Indian Agent. Amendments over the following years included forbidding the indigenous from practicing rituals, authorizing the forced removal of children to ‘residential schools’ (centres where all kinds of systematic abuses occurred). These sorts of laws, particularly the law forbidding Indians to leave reserves without written permission (called the ‘pass system’), were of interest to the South African apartheid regime, which modeled its system on Canada. (1)


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