Indigenous History
The practice of removing Indigenous children from their families and placing them in non-Indigenous foster and adoptive homes.
What is the 60s Scoop?
The primary musical instrument often used in powwows said to represent the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
What is the powwow drum?
National Indigenous Peoples Day
What is June 21?
Who was the Lakota Sioux chief known for his role in the Battle of Little Bighorn and his resistance against the U.S. government's encroachment on Native lands?
Who is Sitting Bull?
What is the term for the traditional dwellings of many Indigenous peoples in North America, often made of wooden frames covered with animal hides or bark?
What are wigwams or tipis?
The number of Calls to Action the T&R commission made.
What is 94?
The 3 distinct groups of Indigenous peoples recognized by the Canadian Constitution.
What is First Nations, Inuit and Métis?
Descendants of the Thule people who migrated from Alaska and the Bering Strait
Who are the Inuit?
Canadian politician, lawyer, Manitoba's first Indigenous judge, and chairman of the T&C Commission.
Who is Murray Sinclair?
This crop, domesticated by Indigenous peoples in the Americas, became a staple food source worldwide.
What is maize (corn)?
The first treaties in North America; tubular beads made from small shells sewn together to represent an agreement between nations.
What is a Wampum Belt?
A national sport of Canada invented by First Nations.
What is lacross?
This province has the largest concentration of Indigenous people— almost 250,000
What is Ontario?
Six-Nations of the Grand River Onondaga long-distance runner and winner of the 1907 Boston Marathon in record time and competed in the 1908 Olympics. Widely considered Canada's first celebrity athlete.
Who is Tom Longboat?
The Indigenous name for the North American continent.
What is Turtle Island?
The year the last government-funded residential school closed in Canada.
What is 1996?
The Indigenous North American agricultural technique of planting corn, beans, and squash together to benefit each other's growth.
What is the Three Sisters?
In official gatherings and events in Canada, what is often done at the beginning to recognize the traditional Indigenous territories?
What is a land acknowledgment?
Manitoba's 25th premier. Canada's first provincial premier of First Nations descent.
Who is Wab Kinew?
The first European settlement in North America from 1000 CE
What is L'anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland?
The number of First Nations groups/communities that exist in Canada today.
What is 634?
Indigenous soldiers who used their languages to transmit coded messages during World War I and World War II.
Who are the Code Talkers?
The young girl whose new orange shirt gifted to her by her grandmother, was taken away from her on her first day at the residential school.
Who is Phyllis Webstad?
Métis leader and founder of Manitoba after the Red River Rebellion.
Who is Louis Riel?
A US holiday that was replaced with Indigenous Peoples Day
What is Columbus Day?