Introduction
It is a term that means the law that the Canadian government has made for First Nations communities.
What is Aboriginal law?
It was the Act passed in 1876 that created a paternalistic relationship with the First Nation communities in Canada.
What is the Indian Act?
The execution of this person was considered a Monumental events for the history of Aboriginal peoples.
Who is Louis Riel?
They are a group of people that are the result of colonization because they are both indigenous and European.
What are the Métis?
It is a legal tradition that has been granted for indigenous communities based on storytelling and other verbal practices.
What is oral tradition?
This document, which was passed in 1982, was fundamental to indigenous people because it entrenched all previous treaty rights.
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
It is a term for laws written by First Nation communities for First Nation communities. Includes rituals and ceremonies and oral traditions.
What is indigenous law?
Proclaimed in 1763, this Proclamation recognized that indigenous people had rights to their land.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
These schools, which operated in Canada for over 100 years, were designed to assimilate indigenous people into Canadian Society.
What are residential schools?
This is a type of law that is based on community practices and ceremonies. It is often attributed to first nation communities.
What is customary law?
A phrase meaning the responsibility to consult Aboriginal people when their rights are in Jeopardy of being affected.
What is the duty to consult?
This early era of European and Indigenous people was characterized by economic cooperation and mutual respect.
What was the fur trade?
It is the purpose of section 35 of the Constitution and section 25 of the Canadian Charter of Rights
What is reaffirming the rights granted for indigenous communities?
This term means land ownership based on long-standing use.
What is Aboriginal title?
It is the case that determines the legal existence of Aboriginal title.
What is the Delgamuukw Case? (1997)
Caulder recognized it, Delgamuukw defined it.
These are the groups that make up the Aboriginal communities in Canada. It is summed up by the acronym FNMI
What our First Nations, Metis, and Inuit.
It is a legal principle that states that the legal system must consider unique indigenous experiences such as colonialism and residential schools when dealing with First Nations people.
What is the Glaude decision?
This event of 1867 was considered one of the most important in Canadian history, but had no input from the indigenous peoples of Canada.
What was the Confederation of Canada?
It is what the Doctrine of Discovery stated about the lands of North America.
What is they were empty?
It is a land claim on lands that have never been formally addressed.
What are comprehensive land claims
It was the process by which indigenous people had to give up their identity for the right to vote and gain Canadian citizenship.
What is enfranchisement?
It is a term used for a people's desire to determine their own fate.
What is self-determination?
It is a democratically elected government for in First Nation communities that is officially recognised by the Canadian government.
What is a Band Council
These treaties, which cover about 2/3 of Canada, outline the process by which indigenous land was signed over to the Canadian government.
What are numbered treaties?
It was a law, by Pierre Trudeu, that attempted to bring First Nation people into mainstream Canadian Society by having them reject their indigenous identity.
What is the White Paper?
They are land claims on lands that are covered by specific trees, such as the numbered treaties.
What are specific land claims?
It is the move in Canada today to address past concerns between the Canadian government and Indigenous people and to bring these two groups together.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
It is a document passed by the United Nations that outlines fundamental rights for Aboriginal people throughout the world.
What is the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, or UNDRIP?
It is a term that means that First Nations people have the right to create their own laws based on their own traditions.
What is self-government?
It was the year canada apologized to First Nation communities for residential schools.
Who is 2008?