This is How We Do
I'll Change You
Take You To School
Let's Celebrate
You Make the Decision
100
The first people to live in Canada before the arrival of the Europeans
Who are Aboriginals/indigenous/Natives/First Nations
100
When a dominant group of people force another to change the way their culture to that of the dominant group
What is assimilation
100
The system of boarding schools set up to educate First Nations children
What is the residential schools system
100
A "give-away" ceremony of the First Nations in British Columbia
What is the potlatch
100
The ability for a First Nation to make laws and decisions that affect their community
What is Aboriginal self-government
200
The majority of Aboriginal groups use this form of decision making
What is consensus
200
A law passed in 1876 that made First Nations 'wards of the state'
What is the Indian Act
200
The ________________ paid made the schools legal and paid for them to operate
What is Government of Canada
200
The term used to describe making a change to a law
What is an amendment
200
An Inuit territory in Canada that uses consensus-based self-government
What is Nunavut
300
A piece of paper signed between the British crown OR Government of Canada and a First Nation that transferred that First Nation's traditional land
What is a treaty
300
The representative of the government who made sure the Indian Act was enforced
Who is the Indian Agent
300
The _____________ ran the schools on a day-to-day basis
What is the church
300
A change to the Indian act that outlawed all forms of ceremomnies
What is the Potlatch law
300
The parts of a community self-government gives Aboriginal peoples control over
What are the making of laws, schools and health services
400
The leader of a First Nation who inherited the title from his/her father/mother
What is a hereditary chief
400
The small areas of land that the government set aside for First Nations to live on
What are reserves (reservations)
400
Stephen Harper apologized for the residential schools system in this year
What is 2008
400
The type of history that cultures use to pass along stories and information through spoken word
What is oral history
400
The right to self-government is recognized in these two documents
What are the Constitution Act (Section 35) and treaties
500
The most respected members of an Aboriginal community because of their age
Who are the elders
500
What were the three major aspects of culture the Government of Canada was trying to force the Aboriginals to change
What are language (English), religion (Christianity) and work (farming/factory work)
500
Over 150,000 First Nations students attended residential schools and this many died or went missing
What is 50,000
500
The economic system that encourages Europeans (and us today) to collect "stuff"
What is capitalism
500
The protest movement in Canada that demands greater attention to the suffering of Aboriginal peoples and more self-government
What is Idle No More
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