... Affairs and Northern Development Canada). An act created to recognize Aboriginal culture and heritage, subtly proves to be oppressive, by allowing the authority to lie in the hands of the federal government. The Indian Act shows us the systemic assimilation tactic taken by the government to transform, the cultural, political, social and economic differences of Aboriginal community into a western civilization. The ... . "In 1991, the unemployment rate of Aboriginal peoples was almost twice the Canadian average: 19.4 percent compared to 10 percent. In the same year, the unemployment rate f...

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