February 27, 2026 at 9:46 PM
In case there's any doubt, despite the obvious work to create them by Chretien.
For every statement of denialism, there are reams of historical documents to refute it. One doesn't have to be a PhD or an ex-PM to access those facts.
#IndianAct #ResidentialSchools denialism #cdnpoli
For every statement of denialism, there are reams of historical documents to refute it. One doesn't have to be a PhD or an ex-PM to access those facts.
#IndianAct #ResidentialSchools denialism #cdnpoli
February 3, 2026 at 9:07 PM
In case there's any doubt, despite the obvious work to create them by Chretien.
For every statement of denialism, there are reams of historical documents to refute it. One doesn't have to be a PhD or an ex-PM to access those facts.
#IndianAct #ResidentialSchools denialism #cdnpoli
For every statement of denialism, there are reams of historical documents to refute it. One doesn't have to be a PhD or an ex-PM to access those facts.
#IndianAct #ResidentialSchools denialism #cdnpoli
"The Indian Act as Wendigo" by Jenni Makahnouk is part of our series exploring the environmental dimensions of the Indian Act, in collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2026/07/28/t...
#envhist #indigenous #cdnhist #indianact
niche-canada.org/2026/07/28/t...
#envhist #indigenous #cdnhist #indianact
The Indian Act as Wendigo
Framing Canada's Indian Act as the insatiable Wendigo exposes its predatory nature, shifting the focus from policy reform to starvation-based refusal.
niche-canada.org
August 3, 2026 at 10:48 PM
"The Indian Act as Wendigo" by Jenni Makahnouk is part of our series exploring the environmental dimensions of the Indian Act, in collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2026/07/28/t...
#envhist #indigenous #cdnhist #indianact
niche-canada.org/2026/07/28/t...
#envhist #indigenous #cdnhist #indianact
Parliament returns after leaving Bill S-2 hanging. Check out the 1st video of my new YouTube series, 'Bill S-2 Explained," where I confront the misinformation with facts. #end2ndgen #endthecutoff #IndianAct #humanrights #indigenous #firstnations www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3XV...
What is Bill S-2? What First Nations Need to Know
YouTube video by Pam Palmater
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September 21, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Parliament returns after leaving Bill S-2 hanging. Check out the 1st video of my new YouTube series, 'Bill S-2 Explained," where I confront the misinformation with facts. #end2ndgen #endthecutoff #IndianAct #humanrights #indigenous #firstnations www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3XV...
Another substack post! Let's unpack a grey drawing by Maitland.....not this one of the seashore - which one? Check out my substack post: aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/what-can-o... #drawing #Indianact #arthistory #art #janeausten
August 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Another substack post! Let's unpack a grey drawing by Maitland.....not this one of the seashore - which one? Check out my substack post: aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/what-can-o... #drawing #Indianact #arthistory #art #janeausten
My latest for @irpp.org Policy Options: "Reconciliation can't wait another generation: end Canada's second-generation cut-off for Indian registration". #firstnations #reconciliation #charter #indianact #equality #treatyrights #childrensrights #mikmaq policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/reco...
End Canada’s second-generation cut-off for Indian registration
Four decades later, Ottawa still maintains the second-generation cut-off. Ending this discrimination is the real test of reconciliation.
policyoptions.irpp.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My latest for @irpp.org Policy Options: "Reconciliation can't wait another generation: end Canada's second-generation cut-off for Indian registration". #firstnations #reconciliation #charter #indianact #equality #treatyrights #childrensrights #mikmaq policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/reco...
“Debate continues over whether the legislation will do enough to address remaining #discrimination under the #IndianAct.”
“fails to take into account the issue of second-generation cut-off & communities' right to control their own membership”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Canada
“fails to take into account the issue of second-generation cut-off & communities' right to control their own membership”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Canada
Remove 2nd-generation cut-off from Indian Act, witnesses tell Senate committee | CBC News
Indigenous leaders and experts say Bill S-2 takes small steps to address discrimination in the Indian Act but fails to solve deeper injustices like the second-generation cut-off.
www.cbc.ca
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“Debate continues over whether the legislation will do enough to address remaining #discrimination under the #IndianAct.”
“fails to take into account the issue of second-generation cut-off & communities' right to control their own membership”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Canada
“fails to take into account the issue of second-generation cut-off & communities' right to control their own membership”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Canada
As an immigrant to Canada & having lived for a long time in Alberta, she’s not forgetting. She knows & is ignoring them just like Canada ignores it’s indigenous people or barely tolerate them at best via #IndianAct.
February 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM
As an immigrant to Canada & having lived for a long time in Alberta, she’s not forgetting. She knows & is ignoring them just like Canada ignores it’s indigenous people or barely tolerate them at best via #IndianAct.
"Bedrock" by Maren Savarese Knopf is part of a short series on the environmental history of the Indian Act in collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social's Indian Act 150 series.
niche-canada.org/2026/07/15/b...
#envhist #cdnhist #indianact #indigenoushistory #colonialism
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#envhist #cdnhist #indianact #indigenoushistory #colonialism
Bedrock
This post is part of a short series on the environmental history of the Indian Act in collaboration with Active History's Indian Act 150 series.
“Sir, We are looking anxiously for your report ...
niche-canada.org
July 18, 2026 at 9:27 PM
"Bedrock" by Maren Savarese Knopf is part of a short series on the environmental history of the Indian Act in collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social's Indian Act 150 series.
niche-canada.org/2026/07/15/b...
#envhist #cdnhist #indianact #indigenoushistory #colonialism
niche-canada.org/2026/07/15/b...
#envhist #cdnhist #indianact #indigenoushistory #colonialism
ICYMI:
“These cities signify with every building and every street that this land is now possessed by others; signs of white possession are embedded everywhere in the landscape”
- Maren Savarese Knopf
niche-canada.org/2026/07/15/b...
#envhist #cdnhist #colonialism #indianact
“These cities signify with every building and every street that this land is now possessed by others; signs of white possession are embedded everywhere in the landscape”
- Maren Savarese Knopf
niche-canada.org/2026/07/15/b...
#envhist #cdnhist #colonialism #indianact
Bedrock
Maren Savarese Knopf examines how the Indian Act enforced settler colonialism and land dispossession, countered by enduring Indigenous resistance and resilience.
niche-canada.org
July 27, 2026 at 7:35 PM
ICYMI:
“These cities signify with every building and every street that this land is now possessed by others; signs of white possession are embedded everywhere in the landscape”
- Maren Savarese Knopf
niche-canada.org/2026/07/15/b...
#envhist #cdnhist #colonialism #indianact
“These cities signify with every building and every street that this land is now possessed by others; signs of white possession are embedded everywhere in the landscape”
- Maren Savarese Knopf
niche-canada.org/2026/07/15/b...
#envhist #cdnhist #colonialism #indianact
Treaties were meant to uphold sovereignty through relationship, not reduce Nations to administrative units under the #IndianAct.
Sovereignty isn’t government allocation. It’s self-determination.
Sovereignty isn’t government allocation. It’s self-determination.
April 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Treaties were meant to uphold sovereignty through relationship, not reduce Nations to administrative units under the #IndianAct.
Sovereignty isn’t government allocation. It’s self-determination.
Sovereignty isn’t government allocation. It’s self-determination.
Press release: Amendment to Bill C-31, 40 Years Later: A Step Toward Justice, But Not The End of The Road
#Indigenouswomen #rights #IndianAct #Anniversary #polcan #Justice
#Indigenouswomen #rights #IndianAct #Anniversary #polcan #Justice
April 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Press release: Amendment to Bill C-31, 40 Years Later: A Step Toward Justice, But Not The End of The Road
#Indigenouswomen #rights #IndianAct #Anniversary #polcan #Justice
#Indigenouswomen #rights #IndianAct #Anniversary #polcan #Justice
Not a small piece.
Not a dark chapter.
A fucking stain of genocide, colonization, and white supremacy.
#noprideingenocide #indianact #residentialschools #60sscoop #forcedsterilizations #rcmp #doctrineofdiscovery #mmiw #MMIEP #genocide #colonization #whitesupremacyisterrorism
Not a dark chapter.
A fucking stain of genocide, colonization, and white supremacy.
#noprideingenocide #indianact #residentialschools #60sscoop #forcedsterilizations #rcmp #doctrineofdiscovery #mmiw #MMIEP #genocide #colonization #whitesupremacyisterrorism
July 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Not a small piece.
Not a dark chapter.
A fucking stain of genocide, colonization, and white supremacy.
#noprideingenocide #indianact #residentialschools #60sscoop #forcedsterilizations #rcmp #doctrineofdiscovery #mmiw #MMIEP #genocide #colonization #whitesupremacyisterrorism
Not a dark chapter.
A fucking stain of genocide, colonization, and white supremacy.
#noprideingenocide #indianact #residentialschools #60sscoop #forcedsterilizations #rcmp #doctrineofdiscovery #mmiw #MMIEP #genocide #colonization #whitesupremacyisterrorism
ICYMI:
"The concept names a recurring institutional pattern in which public language of Indigenous use, benefit, and improvement accompanies administrative procedures that restrict Indigenous jurisdiction." - John W. Bessai
niche-canada.org/2026/08/05/e...
#cdnhist #envhist #cdnpoli #indianact
"The concept names a recurring institutional pattern in which public language of Indigenous use, benefit, and improvement accompanies administrative procedures that restrict Indigenous jurisdiction." - John W. Bessai
niche-canada.org/2026/08/05/e...
#cdnhist #envhist #cdnpoli #indianact
Environmental Rule and Administrative Form: The Indian Act and the Canadian Aporetic Condition
The 1876 Indian Act and federal surveys restricted Indigenous land jurisdiction through bureaucracy, challenging enduring First Nations sovereignty.
niche-canada.org
August 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
ICYMI:
"The concept names a recurring institutional pattern in which public language of Indigenous use, benefit, and improvement accompanies administrative procedures that restrict Indigenous jurisdiction." - John W. Bessai
niche-canada.org/2026/08/05/e...
#cdnhist #envhist #cdnpoli #indianact
"The concept names a recurring institutional pattern in which public language of Indigenous use, benefit, and improvement accompanies administrative procedures that restrict Indigenous jurisdiction." - John W. Bessai
niche-canada.org/2026/08/05/e...
#cdnhist #envhist #cdnpoli #indianact
Bill S-2 could end the second-generation cut-off — one of the most exclusionary rules in the Indian Act.
Thousands of people who lost status through past discrimination could finally regain eligibility.
Read the analysis 👇
factsmtr.substack.com/p/bill-s-2-e...
#cdnpoli #IndianAct #Canada
Thousands of people who lost status through past discrimination could finally regain eligibility.
Read the analysis 👇
factsmtr.substack.com/p/bill-s-2-e...
#cdnpoli #IndianAct #Canada
Bill S-2: Eliminating the Second-Generation Cut-Off
Inside the Major Indian Act Changes That Could Redefine Who Qualifies for Status
factsmtr.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Bill S-2 could end the second-generation cut-off — one of the most exclusionary rules in the Indian Act.
Thousands of people who lost status through past discrimination could finally regain eligibility.
Read the analysis 👇
factsmtr.substack.com/p/bill-s-2-e...
#cdnpoli #IndianAct #Canada
Thousands of people who lost status through past discrimination could finally regain eligibility.
Read the analysis 👇
factsmtr.substack.com/p/bill-s-2-e...
#cdnpoli #IndianAct #Canada
The #IndianAct was created with the intent to end #IndianStatus through many means including marriage to non-status Canadians. I am very happy to see this injustice corrected, no one should lose their identity because of who they love. #CDNPoli #CDNSenate #BillS2 #Canada #CanadaSky #Indigenous
Senators vote to end the second-generation cutoff for ‘status Indians’ www.aptnnews.ca?p=279994
‘We cannot govern who First Nations fall in love with’ says Senator
A Senate committee voted ten to one to amend to the government’s Bill S-2, and implement a one-parent rule for 'status Indians'
www.aptnnews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The #IndianAct was created with the intent to end #IndianStatus through many means including marriage to non-status Canadians. I am very happy to see this injustice corrected, no one should lose their identity because of who they love. #CDNPoli #CDNSenate #BillS2 #Canada #CanadaSky #Indigenous
No. It didn’t. But at that time the handful of British soldiers were supported by allies of the Anishinaabek Nation and the Haudenosaunee— who crushed the invading forces believing the Britain would honour the Treaty of Niagara (1764).
We all know how that went #IndianAct #IndigenousGenocide
We all know how that went #IndianAct #IndigenousGenocide
January 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
No. It didn’t. But at that time the handful of British soldiers were supported by allies of the Anishinaabek Nation and the Haudenosaunee— who crushed the invading forces believing the Britain would honour the Treaty of Niagara (1764).
We all know how that went #IndianAct #IndigenousGenocide
We all know how that went #IndianAct #IndigenousGenocide
When moving past the #IndianAct means something worse : http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/september-2017/when-moving-past-the-indian-act-means-something-worse/ #Decolonization #Recolonization #Indigenous #Colonialism
When moving past the Indian Act means something worse
The history of constitutional talks and federal policy te...
policyoptions.irpp.org
November 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
When moving past the #IndianAct means something worse : http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/september-2017/when-moving-past-the-indian-act-means-something-worse/ #Decolonization #Recolonization #Indigenous #Colonialism
From a day ago, evidence that voice matters.
Canadian @steveboots.bsky.social covers the changes to Bill C-5 that have resulted from people communicating to their representatives about their concerns.
You can call and raise the numbers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVkx...
#CdnPoli #IndianAct
Canadian @steveboots.bsky.social covers the changes to Bill C-5 that have resulted from people communicating to their representatives about their concerns.
You can call and raise the numbers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVkx...
#CdnPoli #IndianAct
Major Improvements to Bill C-5
YouTube video by Steve Boots Clips
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June 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
From a day ago, evidence that voice matters.
Canadian @steveboots.bsky.social covers the changes to Bill C-5 that have resulted from people communicating to their representatives about their concerns.
You can call and raise the numbers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVkx...
#CdnPoli #IndianAct
Canadian @steveboots.bsky.social covers the changes to Bill C-5 that have resulted from people communicating to their representatives about their concerns.
You can call and raise the numbers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVkx...
#CdnPoli #IndianAct
As Election Day approaches, it is important to remember that the right to vote was a hard-fought battle for #Indigenous Peoples.
Read more about the history of the #IndianAct and the right to vote here: www.ictinc.ca/blog/indian-...
Read more about the history of the #IndianAct and the right to vote here: www.ictinc.ca/blog/indian-...
Indian Act and the Right to Vote
What is the history of the Indian Act and the right to vote for Aboriginal Peoples in Canada? Read this short article to find out.
www.ictinc.ca
April 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
As Election Day approaches, it is important to remember that the right to vote was a hard-fought battle for #Indigenous Peoples.
Read more about the history of the #IndianAct and the right to vote here: www.ictinc.ca/blog/indian-...
Read more about the history of the #IndianAct and the right to vote here: www.ictinc.ca/blog/indian-...
Self-government and getting rid of the Indian Act has become an even more timely discussion, says author
#Author #BobJoseph #book #CommunityNewspaper #Conversation #Discussion #Dismantling #Elected #Government #IndianAct #Indigenous #OneCanadianEconomyAct
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#Author #BobJoseph #book #CommunityNewspaper #Conversation #Discussion #Dismantling #Elected #Government #IndianAct #Indigenous #OneCanadianEconomyAct
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Self-government and getting rid of the Indian Act has become an even more timely discussion, says author - Prince Albert Daily Herald
Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com It's a "perfect storm," says Bob Joseph about the timing of the release of his recent book. 21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government: A Conversation About Dismantling the Indian Act coincides with the push by the new federal government to implement its first major piece
paherald.sk.ca
September 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Self-government and getting rid of the Indian Act has become an even more timely discussion, says author
#Author #BobJoseph #book #CommunityNewspaper #Conversation #Discussion #Dismantling #Elected #Government #IndianAct #Indigenous #OneCanadianEconomyAct
paherald.sk.ca/self-governm...
#Author #BobJoseph #book #CommunityNewspaper #Conversation #Discussion #Dismantling #Elected #Government #IndianAct #Indigenous #OneCanadianEconomyAct
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Anishinaabe journalist Tanya Talaga’s search for a long-lost family matriarch reveals a story intertwined with the impact of Canada’s Indian Act policies.
The Knowing
Watch free on knowledge.ca
#knowledgenetwork #documentary #canada #residentialschool #indianact
The Knowing
Watch free on knowledge.ca
#knowledgenetwork #documentary #canada #residentialschool #indianact
September 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Anishinaabe journalist Tanya Talaga’s search for a long-lost family matriarch reveals a story intertwined with the impact of Canada’s Indian Act policies.
The Knowing
Watch free on knowledge.ca
#knowledgenetwork #documentary #canada #residentialschool #indianact
The Knowing
Watch free on knowledge.ca
#knowledgenetwork #documentary #canada #residentialschool #indianact