Readings for Treaty People: Indian Act – Fall 2018

Please click here for details of a reading series Jocelyn Parr and Richard Cassidy are co-facilitating in the Library’s main-floor reading room from October 18 through November 22, 2018 —  five Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00.

This is the second session of “Readings for Treaty People,” a public education project designed for settlers but open always to anyone. This session will focus on the several iterations of the Indian Act. First legislated in 1876, its many amendments have governed the lives of First Nations people across Canada in a myriad of ways, replacing traditional forms of indigenous leadership with band council and Indian Status systems, banning traditional indigenous practices, and imposing such forms of control upon Indigenous peoples as the residential school and pass systems.

Registration is required and will be capped at 25 participants.  To sign up, please email: Reading.the.treaties@gmail.com.