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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 to advance the process of assimilation by the Canadian government.
What are Residential Schools?
To speak two or more languages.
What is Billingualism.
People whose native language is English or who speak English because they live in a country where English is one of the official languages.
What is an Anglophone?
A series of eleven agreements signed between the First Nations, including reserve lands, annuities, and hunting/fishing rights
What is Numbered Treaties
Indigenous people of Canada's territories and parts of Greenland and Alaska.
Who are the Inuit people?
A set of land set aside for first nations under the Indian Act.
What is Reserve
The process of absorbing one cultural group into another.
What is Assimilation.
The section of the Charter that requires provincial and territorial governments to provide education to Canadians in the official language of their choice, even in areas where a minority of residents speaks that language.
What is Section 23?
Groups of people whose maternal or chosen official language is not the majority language in their province or territory.
What are Language Minorities?
1 of 3 recognized Indigenous Peoples in Canada, that include Status and non-Status "Indians".
Who are the First Nations?
The province in Western Canada that is not fully accounted for with Numbered Treaties
What is British Columbia?
To assert something, such as a judgment or decree, as valid or confirmed.
Meaning to fix firmly within, synonyms include: establish, cement, ingrain, embed
What is entrenching?
All five founding cultures in Canada are protected under this
What is the constitution?
3 services for First Nations that were guaranteed under the numbered treaties
What is healthcare, education, hunting/fishing rights, reserves, annuities, etc.
Independence as a people, with a right to self-government. Independence, self-governing, autonomous, self-determined are some synonyms
What is sovereignty?
The amount of groups that hold collective rights in the United States
Where are there no groups with collective rights?
The signing of this act in 1867 created an officially bicultural/bilingual Canada
Payments made to First Nations to honour obligations set out in historical treaties. The treaties provide for an annual cash payment, ordinarily distributed at treaty events or by individual cheque
What is Annuity
The Constitution of Alberta Amendment Act granted this Indigenous group self-determination
Who are the Metis?
The method that traditional Indigenous societies used to record histories
What is oral history/documentation?
What is Ethnocentrism
The section(s) of Canada’s Charter established French and English as Canada’s official language
What are sections 16-20?
Meaning to bring to a country something that belongs to the country: Synonyms include: to bring home, to bring back
What is patriate?