The federal government uses this law to administer Indian status, local First Nations governments and the management of reserve land.
What is The Indian Act
A place that Indigenous children were taken to. The last one closed in 2008.
What is Residential Schools
To speak two or more languages.
What is Billingualism.
An individual who dabbles in the language of the english speaking population.
What is Anglophone
A financial product that provides you with a guaranteed regular income.
What is Annuity
Indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska.
What is Inuit
This act created one of the provinces in Alberta.
What is The Manitoba Act
The process of absorbing one cultural group into another.
What is Assimilation.
A minor change or addition designed to improve a text, piece of legislation.
What is Amendment
Groups of people whose maternal or chosen official language is not the majority language in their province or territory.
What is Official Language Minorities.
Any of the groups of indigenous peoples of Canada officially recognized as an administrative unit by the federal government or functioning as such without official status.
What is First Nations.
A set of land set aside for first nations under the Indian Act.
What is Reserve
What is Ethnocentrism
The law that children get an education.
What is Education Rights
The ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority.
What is Self Governance.
An individual who dabbles in the language of the french speaking population.
What is Francophone
The right or condition to self govern.
What is Autonomy
To assert something, such as a judgment or decree, as valid or confirmed.
Something, typically money, awarded to someone as a recompense for loss, injury, or suffering.
What is Compensation.
Promised reserve lands, annuities, and the continued right to hunt and fish on unoccupied Crown lands in exchange for Aboriginal title.
What is Numbered Treaties
This made french the official language of the government of Quebec & Quebec society. Also known as the Charter of the French Language.
What is Bill 101
Money that comes from the government (Often through taxes) that's used to help the public through goods and services.
What is Publicly Funded
Information about the period, the place, and the events that. Created, influenced, or formed the backdrop to the historic.
What is Historical Context
English-language groups in Quebec and French-language communities outside Quebec.
What is Official Language Communities.
Issued documents redeemable for land or money.
What is Scrip.