Learning Activity - The Indian Act and Module Review

Read the information in this module and answer the following questions about the Indian Act:

Who?

• Who wrote the Indian Act? 
• Who is governed by the Act? Who is not?

What?

• What year was the Indian Act written? 
• What were the aims of the Indian Act? 
• What have been the most important reforms?

When?  

• When were amendments to the Act made?

Where?

• Who owns reserve lands?
• Who can live on reserve lands?

Why? 

• Why was the Act created? 
• Why did it get amended at different times?