The Indian Act (French: Loi sur les Indiens) is a Canadian Act of Parliament that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves...
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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law, as described by Congress, provided...
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related to this article: Indian Citizenship Act The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress...
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The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler–Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of American Indians...
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The Indian Appropriations Act is the name of several acts passed by the United States Congress. A considerable number of acts were passed under the same...
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The Indian Register is the official record of people registered under the Indian Act in Canada, called status Indians or registered Indians. People registered...
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The Indian Independence Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 30) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two...
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The Indian Councils Act 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 4), commonly known as the Morley–Minto or Minto–Morley Reforms, was an act of the Parliament of the United...
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The Indian Evidence Act, originally passed in India by the Imperial Legislative Council in 1872, during the British Raj, contains a set of rules and allied...
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The Indian Councils Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 67) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that transformed India's executive council to function...
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Canada, an Indian reserve (French: réserve indienne) or First Nations reserve (French: réserve des premières nations) is defined by the Indian Act as a "tract...
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Indigenous peoples in Canada (section Indian Act)
The Indian Act (Revised Statutes of Canada (R.S.C.), 1985, c. I-5) sets the legal term Indian, designating that "a person who pursuant to this Act is registered...
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Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936 (also known as the Thomas-Rogers Act) is a United States federal law that extended the 1934 Wheeler-Howard or Indian Reorganization...
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The Indian Contract Act, 1872 prescribes the law relating to contracts in India and is the key regulating Indian contract law. Then the principles of English...
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Native American name controversy (redirect from Red Indian)
fall under the "First Nations" category. Status Indian remains a legal designation because of the Indian Act. Europeans at the time of Christopher Columbus's...
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First Nations in Canada (redirect from Canadian Indian)
be a band for the purposes of", according to the Indian Act by the Canadian Crown. The term Indian is a misnomer, given to Indigenous peoples of North...
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The Indian Partnership Act, 1932 was enacted in India in 1932. Under section 44(d) of the act, a suit can be filed against the managing partner for dissolution...
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determine which Indians were eligible for allotments, which propelled an official search for a federal definition of "Indian-ness". Although the act was passed...
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The Indian Forest Act, 1927 was largely based on previous Indian Forest Acts implemented under the British Raj. The most famous one was the Indian Forest...
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before Confederation, but it was primarily active from the passage of the Indian Act in 1876, under Prime Minister Alexander MacKenzie. Under Prime Minister...
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The Indian Christian Marriage Act of 1872 is an act of the Parliament of India regulating the legal marriage of Indian Christians. It was enacted on 18...
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Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations (redirect from List of Canadian Superintendents-General of Indian Affairs)
administering the Indian Act and other legislation dealing with "Indians and lands reserved for the Indians" under subsection 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867...
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The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA, enacted November 8, 1978 and codified at 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901–1963) is a United States federal law that governs...
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The Indian Relocation Act of 1956 (also known as Public Law 959 or the Adult Vocational Training Program) was a United States law intended to create a...
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in the Indian Major Crimes Act, and their authority to do that was called into question. To clarify the state's authority, they proposed the act to fill...
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Distribution, Government of India. It is established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 which came into effect on 12 October 2017. The Minister in...
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The Nonintercourse Act (also known as the Indian Intercourse Act or the Indian Nonintercourse Act) is the collective name given to six statutes passed...
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has numerous Indian reserves, also known as First Nations reserves, for First Nations people, which were mostly established by the Indian Act of 1876 and...
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Indian Trusts Act, 1882 is a law in India relating to private trusts and trustees. The Act defines what would lawfully be called as a trust and who can...
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The Indian Stamp Act of 1899 (2 of 1899), is an in-force Act of the Government of India for the charging of stamp duty on instruments recording transactions...
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