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I ndian Policy and Legislation: Aboriginal Identity Survival in C anada
Author(s) -
ManzanoMunguía Maria C.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
studies in ethnicity and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1754-9469
pISSN - 1473-8481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-9469.2011.01145.x
Subject(s) - legislation , politics , identity (music) , resistance (ecology) , political process , population , public administration , political science , law , political economy , sociology , demography , art , aesthetics , biology , ecology
Abstract This article examines the socio‐historical construction of I ndian policy and legislation as the processes set out to making the ‘ I ndian’ population legible to its rulers during the pre‐ and post‐confederation periods in U pper C anada. I aim to demonstrate how I ndian policy and legislation materialised into concrete actions that attempted to assimilate, civilise, and protect the ‘ I ndians’ by deploying different instruments of control or governmentalities, such as the residential school and reserve system. Nonetheless, resistance and political positioning of I ndigenous people is present, and post‐confederation I ndian policymaking in C anada is a much more negotiated process.