00:00The Indian Act is the main Canadian law dealing with registered Indians, their bands
00:06and the reserve system.
00:07It was adopted in 1876 under Article 91, 24, of the Constitution Act of 1867 which gives
00:15to the Canadian government the exclusive authority to legislate on Indians and lands reserved for Indians.
00:20Originally, in 1876, the law was called the Savages Act.
00:24The law defines who is "Indian" and provides for certain rights and incapacities for registered Indians.
00:30The rights of Indians and other Indigenous nations in Canada were enshrined in section 35 of the
00:36constitutional law of 1982.
00:38The application of the Indian Act falls under the purview of the Minister of Indigenous Services of Canada, who acts in particular
00:44as Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.
00:46Its existence and scope remain contested by several Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors, particularly with regard to human rights violations.
00:53the person and the social and cultural disruptions they cause to the Indians.
00:56They were fought during the analysis from the Parcance.
00:57The rights of the States of Canada have been challenged in the relevant proceedings.
00:57What is currently focusing on a subject, pregnant with what exists in branches, the rights of
00:57other associations of the Arrères, in the rights of living rights.
00:57THANKS.
