Reflections on the Indian Act

Before we studied the Indian act in class, I knew how they discriminated the first nations and forced the children into schools called residential schools. they put them into these schools to convert them into Europeans. They disliked the culture and how the first nations lived which then they decided to make them European and teach them their culture and convert them

5 ideas I learned about the indian act are:

1. They gave people that were first nations a status card which determined that they were first nations
2. If a first nation man married a European women, the man kept his culture and identity but if a first nation women married a European man, she would lose her status number and her identity.
3. they were forced to become farmers
4. They could not own houses. They were given land and could not sell or upgrade the house because it own to the government and all changes to the house had to be approved by the government
5. they had to ask to leave the reserves

one question I have is……

how many first nations left/ died because of this problem. because houses the were given were old house and did not have a smoke detector etc.

I am going to use this information I learned to..

teach other generations about this problem and possibly they could remove this problem.