Fur Trade
This animal was the first one traded and was nearly hunted to extinction on the Coast.
What is the sea otter?
Where most of the gold miners came from?
What is the US (San Francisco)
The year BC became a province.
What is 1870?
They ran the residential schools and were responsible for a lot of abuse against First Peoples children.
What are churches?
Western economies are individualist; First Peoples economies are this.
What is 'collectivist'?
This annual movement of peoples stopped occurring when the First Peoples started to stay close to the fur trade forts?
What is ‘seasonal rounds’?
Give two examples of “resource extraction”.
What is logging, mining, furs, fishing?
BC First Peoples families were given 10 acres of land per family; this is how much other provinces gave.
What is 80 acres?
BC First Peoples kids were not allowed to attend these until 1951.
What are public schools?
The 1880s Fisheries Act made it illegal for First Peoples to do this with fish they caught in their traditional territories.
What is 'sell it'?
The percentage of those who got smallpox and died from the disease was as high as this in some communities?
What is 95%
Why the British created a colony in 1849.
They were afraid of US expansion?
This was banned in 1884.
What is the potlatch?
These have been found on the grounds of many residential schools.
What are 'unmarked graves'?
First Peoples farmers lacked access to these two essential resources.
What is 'land' and 'water'?
The lack of this, made the First Peoples susceptible to Western diseases.
What is immunity?
This Governor of the Fort Victoria colony signed (unfair) treaties with Coastal First Peoples?
Who is James Douglas?
This means to have the rights of regular Canadians and to lost your status as a First Person?
What is enfranchisement?
The percentage of First Peoples kids who were able to complete Grade 6 in 1930.
What is 3%?
What is a 'wage labourer'?
The two different kinds of fur trade and which one came first.
What is maritime and land? Maritime.
The name of the two colonies created in 1849 and 1858?
What is Fort Victoria and British Columbia
This position controlled the First Peoples band council?
Who is the Indian Agent?
What white families did to First Peoples children during the 60s scoop.
What is 'adopt' them?
In 1931, Coastal First Peoples organized this union to fight for their rights.
What is the Native Brotherhood?