The Pyramid of Hate
The lowest level of the Pyramid, involving stereotypes and microaggressions.
What is Biased Attitudes
Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.
What is First Nations?
Who someone is emotionally or romantically attracted to.
What is Sexual Orientation?
The first and most influential agent of socialization.
What is Family?
Long‑term shifts in temperature and weather patterns.
What is Climate Change?
Behaviours like social exclusion or biased jokes.
What is Acts of Bias
Indigenous peoples of the Arctic regions of Canada.
What is Inuit?
One’s internal sense of being male, female, both, neither, or another identity.
What is Gender Identity?
Teaches norms, values, and social roles.
What is School?
The total greenhouse gases produced by an individual or group.
What is Carbon Footprint?
When bias becomes institutional or systemic.
What is Discrimination?
A distinct Indigenous nation with mixed Indigenous and European ancestry.
What is Métis?
A term used by some Indigenous peoples to describe gender roles and identities.
What is Two‑Spirit?
Influence identity, belonging, and behaviour during adolescence.
What are Peer Groups?
Using resources in ways that preserve them for future generations.
What is Sustainability?
Physical harm or threats targeting identity groups.
What is Bias‑Motivated Violence?
Legally binding agreements between Indigenous nations and the Crown.
What is Treaty Rights?
A gender identity outside the male/female binary.
What is Non‑Binary?
Shapes beliefs, norms, and perceptions of identity.
What is Media
Actions that cause greenhouse gas emissions.
What is Fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas?
The intentional destruction of a group; the top of the Pyramid.
What is Genocide?
A system designed to assimilate Indigenous children, causing intergenerational trauma.
What are Residential Schools?
How overlapping identities shape experiences of discrimination or privilege.
What is Intersectionality?
Provides moral frameworks, rituals, and community identity.
What is Religion
This term describes the cascading ecological crisis in which shrinking sea‑ice forces polar bears to spend more time on land, reducing hunting opportunities, lowering body fat, decreasing reproductive success, and increasing human–wildlife conflict — a systems‑level disruption driven by rapid Arctic warming.
What is climate‑induced habitat loss?