Terminology Review Pt 1
This term describes the beliefs and principles that are important to a person or group and help guide their actions and decisions.
Values
This is the system or group responsible for making decisions, rules, and laws for a country or community.
Government
A group continues discussing an issue until everyone can support the decision rather than simply taking a majority vote.
Consensus.
A smaller group meets to discuss concerns they have in common before returning to the larger group.
Caucus
Your Jeopardy team cannot answer until everyone agrees on the choice. Which terminology word are you practicing right now?
Consensus
Cree, Dene, and Blackfoot peoples belong to this Indigenous grouping, while Inuit and Métis do not.
First Nation
Under Canadian law, this term has been used for a recognized First Nation community.
Band
People within a larger political or governing organization meet because they share particular interests or concerns.
Caucus.
Everyone is encouraged to have relatively equal influence rather than decisions being controlled by people at higher levels.
Egalitarian
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis are distinct from one another, but this term has been used in Canada to refer to all three collectively.
Aboriginal Peoples
Culture, family, teachings, experiences, beliefs, and relationships can all influence how someone understands the world around them. What term describes this?
Worldview
Several distinct groups join together for shared purposes but continue to maintain their own identities and authority.
Confederation.
A structure emphasizes relatively equal status and participation rather than placing people into levels of authority.
Egalitarian.
The question is asking specifically about a First Nation community recognized under Canadian law, rather than a broader people connected through shared identity, history, culture, or territory.
Band
One term describes a broader group of people connected through identity, culture, history, language, territory, or governance. Another describes several distinct groups or Nations choosing to work together while remaining separate. Name both.
Nation and Confederation
Two people may both be Indigenous but belong to distinct peoples with different histories, cultures, identities, and homelands. One person's people have traditional homelands in the Arctic, while the other belongs to mixed Indigenous and European blood. Name the two terms.
Inuit and Metis
A nation takes responsibility for areas such as education, leadership, community programs, and other internal affairs rather than having those decisions made entirely by an outside government.
Self-government.
A structure has different levels of authority, with some positions holding more decision-making power than others.
Hierarchical.
The focus is on a Nation actually managing and making decisions about its own affairs.
Self-government.
A Nation has its own ways of making decisions. Instead of concentrating authority at different levels, its system emphasizes relatively equal participation among members. Which two terms are represented?
Nation and Egalitarian
Cree people may live in many different communities, but they can still share connections through language, culture, history, identity, territory, and political relationships. Which term best describes this larger collective identity?
Nation
A nation argues that its ability to govern does not simply exist because another government allows it. Instead, it possesses its own authority as a nation. Which term is most closely connected to this idea?
Sovereignty.
A group votes 7–3 on an issue. The seven-person majority wants to move forward immediately, but the group instead keeps discussing and adjusting the proposal until all ten can support it. Which concept changed how the final decision was reached?
Consensus
The focus is not on the structures a Nation uses to govern. The question is about the Nation's underlying authority to govern itself.
Sovereignty.
A Nation says:
“We are a distinct people with our own identity and history. We have the authority to govern ourselves, and we exercise that authority by making decisions about our own affairs.”
Identify the three terminology words represented.
Nation = distinct people connected through shared identity/history.
Sovereignty = authority to govern itself.
Self-government = exercising that authority through its own governance and decisions.