Between 1876 and 1950, the purpose of the amendments to the Indian Act was to strengthen the philosophy

of enfranchisement, assimilation and civilization to government control. Moreover, many of the changes to the Act granted the government greater powers to move the First Nations and expropriate their lands for the purpose of non-Aboriginal use. It was always about getting the control of the land away from the First Nations. Key amendments to the Indian Act during this period include:

1874: Being intoxicated on- or off -reserve is punishable by one month in jail. Failure to name the seller of the alcohol could lead to additional 14 days imprisonment. 1876: Defining Indian as non-person of Canada. 1876: The creation of an officer, the Superintendant-General. 1876: Crown Control of Band Funds: the proceeds arising for the sale or lease of any Indian lands, or from timber, hay, stone, minerals or other valiables thereon, shall be paid to the Receiver General for the credit of the Indian fund. [Note to Canadians today You as taxpayers are not paying for Indian Affairs budget. Comes from natural resources.] 1876: Control of Band Membership. 1876: Reserves as an instrument for segregation of First Peoples from Canada. No Trespassing signs were posted on the boundaries off reserves. 1876: Attacking historic status of women as leaders. 1880: Development of Indian Affairs. 1880: Enfranchisement Act (Attacking the educated, Indian Status and Treaty Rights) 1880: Minister the power to dispose any Chief or Headmen. 1881: Indian Agents made Justices of the Peace to control every aspect of Indians and their lands. 1884: Suppressing Indian disorder (3 or more Indians gathered is inciting riot). 1884: Disarming First Nations. 1884: Compulsory attendance to residential schools (mandatory for Aboriginal children from the age of 5 to the age of 17). 1885: Pass system on reserves. Indians had to pay a fee to an Indian Agent and to get his permission to leave the reserve. 1885: Indians are not allowed to use modern machinery. 1888: Implementing a permit system regulating control what Indians could buy, sell or transact. 1889: Attacking and eliminating traditional tribal governance systems. 1894: Attacking Culture, Language and Reserves: Prohibition of traditional Indigenous ceremonies, such as Potlatches, Give-aways, Sun Dance or any traditional gatherings. 1894: Removal of band control over non-Aboriginals living on reserves. This power was transferred to the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. 1905: Power to remove First Nation peoples from reserves near towns with more than 8,000 people. 1910: The Final Solution to End the Indian Problem is the eventual 50,000 dead children of the Indian residential schools era.

1911: Power to expropriate portions of reserves for roads, railways and other public works, as well as to move an entire reserve away from a municipality if it was deemed expedient. (Indians out of sight out of mind) 1912: Power to override Treaties. 1914: War measures powers of crown, Band funds spent without Indian consent, lands leased without a surrender. 1914: All dances and ceremonies outlawed. 1918: Power to lease out uncultivated reserve lands to non-Aboriginals if the new leaseholder would use it for farming or pasture. 1920: Unilateral Enfranchisement of Band Members, attacking the educated and war veterens. 1922: Requirement that western Indians seek official permission before appearing in Indian costume in any public dance, show, exhibition, stampede or pageant. 1927: Prohibition of anyone (Aboriginal or otherwise) from soliciting funds for Aboriginal legal claims without special license from the Superintendent General. This amendment granted the government absolute control over the ability of Aboriginals to pursue land claims. 1927: Forbade First Nations People from forming political organizations. 1927: Denied Aboriginal Peoples from speaking their native language. 1929: Involuntary Sterilization Laws targeting females at Indian residential schools could legally be made infertile. 1930: NRTA: Transfer of natural resources to provincial governments to further distances First Nations from their Lands and Territories. A further erosion of Treaty Rights. 1930: Prohibition of pool hall owners from allowing entrance of an Indian who by inordinate frequenting of a pool room either on or off an Indian reserve misspends or wastes his time or means to the detriment of himself, his family or household. 1933: Voluntary Enfranchisement to encourage working off the reserves by becoming Non-status Indians. 1940s and early 1950s: Government conducted health experiments on First Nations children in Indian residential schools. 1945: First Nations Canadian Veterans under the the Veterans Land Act denied benefits. Good enough to give their lives abroad forgotten at home. 1947: The Jenness Liquidation Plan: The Liquidation of Canadas Indian Problem within Twenty-five Years. 1951: (The Act is revised to allow some freedoms) Minister of Indian Affairs is granted broader discretionary powers over the implementation of the Act as well as the daily lives of Indians on reserves (from birth to the grave). Parliament would allow that provincial law to apply to Indians on reserves. [After 1952, the Act remains substantially unrevised to 1990's except in regards to the so-called "discrimination against Indian women (Bill C31)."] 1960: An Indian person could now have the right to vote federally without having to give up their Indian status. 1961: Compulsory enfranchisement provisions were removed from the Indian Act, meaning that First Nations could no longer be forced to give up their Indian status.