... recognized the uniqueness of First Nations people but also proceeded in a manner of assimilating them into Canadian society by allowing the government to have overpowering control. With the establishment of the reserve system came the development of the Indian Act (Cassidy & Bish, 1989). In 1876, Parliament passed the Indian Act, the legislation that merged all existing laws relating to Indian peoples in ... as Metis people have not experienced the negative aspects of the Indian Act. However, they were also not as properly recognized as other Aboriginal peoples by Canadian society and go...

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... ://www.elections.govt.nz /elections/ resources/glossary_a-h.html) and is responsible for policy making. New Zealand has a unicameral House of Representatives, the second branch, home to the 120 Members of Parliament elected, or appointed in the case of list Members, under a Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system. This branch is responsible for, among other things, "enacting laws [and] allocating funding ... the responsibilities that used to lie with the Department of Indian Affairs for providing social programmes for their people. In British Columbia (BC) treaties have been made between ...

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