10.C1.4

describe the main causes of some key political developments and/or government policies that affected Indigenous peoples in Canada during this period (e.g., amendments to the Indian Act; the continuing operation of residential schools; the Dominion Franchise Act, 1934; the Ewing Commission, 1934–36; provincial Sexual Sterilization Acts; the creation of the Newfoundland Rangers; the Métis Population Betterment Act, 1938; the beginning of the federal government’s use of “Eskimo” identification tags), and assess their impact on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities