India founded the INC (Indian National Congress) to seek reforms in Britain's government of India.

(To be federally recognized as an Indian either in Canada or the United States, an individual must be able to comply with very distinct standards of government regulation.

The Indian Act in Canada, in this respect, is much more than a body of laws that for over a century have controlled every aspect of Indian life.

As a regulatory regime, the Indian Act provides ways of understanding Native identity, organizing a conceptual framework that has shaped contemporary Native life in ways that are now so familiar as to almost seem “natural.”

The Government of Indian act

In 1935 Great Britain passed the government of Indian act due to the works of the INC.