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listed that such Chiefs were responsible for the "roads, bridges, ditches and fences within their Reserve to be put and maintained in proper order." If the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs determined that they were not in order, the SG could order works to be done, at the cost to the Reserve, out of their annual allowance or otherwise.
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Section 6 introduced the disenfranchisement of Indigenous women. "Provided always that any Indian woman marrying any other than an Indian, shall cease to be an Indian within the meaning of this Act, nor shall the children issue of such marriage be considered as Indians within the meaning of this Act.
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Only those persons designated by the Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs were entitled to land ownership in reserves. To those Indigenous persons who became enfranchised, that is citizens of Canada, they had to adopt English names. Those who were enfranchised became eligible for land grants.
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The Act's Section 10 granted the Governor to order that the Chiefs of any "tribe, band or body of Indians shall be elected by the male members of each Indian Settlement of the full age of twenty-one years". There would also be "sub-Chiefs" for every 200 persons within the same group. Section 11
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The Act defined lineage by the men of each band or body, regardless of a band's own kinship rules. If a married Indigenous man became enfranchised, they lost their Indian status, along with his wife and children.
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Persons of "less than one-fourth Indian blood" could no longer share in the monies paid to the band or body. This would apply to those born after the passing of the Act.
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An Act for the gradual enfranchisement of Indians, the better management of Indian affairs, and to extend the provisions of the Act 31st Victoria, Chapter 42
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Additionally, if an Indigenous woman married an Indigenous man of another First Nation, she would cease to be a member of her previous First Nation.
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The construction of and maintaining in repair of schoolhouses, council houses and other Indian public buildings.
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The observance of order and decorum at assemblies of the people in General Council, or on other occasions.
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identified the introduction of elected band councils as a key element of the
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Disenfranchisement of Indigenous women who marry outside their First Nation
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The Act's Section 12 also laid out the duties of such Chiefs/Councils:
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The establishment of pounds and the appointment of pound-keepers
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had interfered only with tribal land holding patterns. The
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The maintenance of roads, bridges, ditches and fences.
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Parliament of Canada
Long title
Parliament of Canada
Indigenous peoples
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First Nations
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Timeline
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Genetics
Settler colonialism
Genocide
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Reconciliation
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British Columbia Treaty Process
Crown and Indigenous peoples
Health Policy
Idle No More
Indian Act
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Land Back
Land claims
Land defender
Land title
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Numbered Treaties

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