Historical Foundations
This 1763 proclamation initially recognized Indigenous sovereignty and established treaty protocols.
What is the Royal Proclamation?
This is the year the oppressive Indian Act was passed by the Canadian government.
What is 1876?
This was the explicit goal of the Residential School system, as stated by its officials.
What is "to kill the Indian in the child"?
Modern conflicts over pipelines often occur on this type of Indigenous land, never legally surrendered.
What is Unceded Land?
Rock, Paper, Sciccors
ROCK
(if you picked Paper you won)
This Wampum belt symbolizes the original ideal of two nations travelling together in peace but separately.
What is the Two-Row Wampum?
The Indian Act gave the government the power to legally define who was this.
What is a "Status Indian"?
This term describes the period when thousands of Indigenous children were adopted into non-Indigenous homes.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
Many historic treaties are disputed due to these, which were promises of healthcare and resource sharing.
What are Broken Treaty Promises?
Yes or No
Or
The early fur trade is an example of this type of relationship, based on mutual need.
What is a partnership or mutual dependence?
This was the primary goal of the Indian Act, beyond simple control.
What is Assimilation?
The TRC used this specific, powerful term to describe the intent and impact of the Residential School system.
What is Cultural Genocide?
The ongoing struggle over land and resources highlights the conflict between provincial and corporate interests and these constitutionally protected rights.
What are Aboriginal Rights and Title?
Do you think i have schizophrenia?
I wasn't talking to you. YOU LOSE POINTS
The original treaty relationship was intended to be this type of relationship, not one of subjugation.
What is a Nation-to-Nation relationship?
The Indian Act replaced traditional Indigenous governance with this federally controlled system.
What is the Band Council system?
This is one of the main reasons the negative effects of Residential Schools are still felt so strongly in communities today.
What is Intergenerational Trauma?
Unsafe drinking water and poor housing in many Indigenous communities are examples of this, a direct result of colonial policies.
What is Socio-Economic Marginalization?
Is a Grapefruit a fruit
NO (it is but no)
This is the name for the early economic and military alliances between European settlers and Indigenous nations.
What are strategic alliances?
This discriminatory rule in the Indian Act caused many Indigenous women and their children to lose their legal status.
What is the "marrying out" rule?
This is a key reason why Indigenous children are still overrepresented in the foster care system today.
What are Systemic Biases and Intergenerational Trauma?
This modern legal concept, upheld by the Supreme Court, requires the government to consult and accommodate Indigenous peoples on projects affecting their rights and land.
What is the Duty to Consult and Accommodate?
A person's head becomes unattached from their body but they don't die, why is this?
They were already dead