Cultural Contacts
This is the commonly used term to describe the transfer of materials, human, and diseases across the Atlantic.
What is The Columbian Exchange?
These "sister provinces" not only share the same birthdate of September 5th 1905, but they also share the unfortunate title of having the most Residential Schools.
What is Alberta and Saskatchewan?
Adam Smith said this appendage would guide the free market, not government intervention
What is the invisible hand?
The Australian and Canadian governments often practiced this against their indigenous peoples, in an attempt to absorb or eliminate their culture
What is assimilation?
In 1990, Canada turned its eyes to this protest over a golf course development
What is the Oka Crisis?
This caused 90 percent of North America's population to be wiped out after Christopher Columbus arrived.
What is the spread of diseases?
the truth and reconciliation commission wrapped up its work in 2015, and it existed to provide a voice for these people
Who are residential school survivors?
Although Canada operates as a capitalist society, some of the policies of our government (such as universal health care), are rooted in this ideology.
What is socialism?
In the 1940's-50's, the Canadian government feared a Soviet invasion from the North, so they forcibly relocated these people to permanent settlements in Nunavut and other areas, to give the impression the Arctic was populated
Who are the Inuit?
In 2012, the chief of Attawapiskat decided to protest the unsafe drinking water on their reserve by taking a hunger strike. This resulted in this nationwide protest
What is Idle No More?
A holistic, relational perspective emphasizing that all living things- people, land, animals, and spirits- are deeply interconnected
What is Indigenous/ Aboriginal Worldview?
The numbered treaties were supposed to mark a mutual understanding between Indigenous nations and the government of Canada, but these two concepts became lost in translation, forming many of the difficulties in the relationship today
What is the language barrier, and ideas of land ownership
The Uighurs are being used as forced labour in the factories of some of the world's biggest companies. This is an example of when capitalism becomes
what is exploitative?
What type of leadership usually formed after a European nation left its African colony?
What is a dictatorship?
2019 saw the Wet'suwet'ten pipeline protests. The protests were focused on this
what are land claims?
Not to be confused with bringing a bag of cheetos to a family dinner, a potlatch is this.
What is a feast significant in Pacific Northwest culture, where important talks surrounding economics, politics, and social events would occur.
The late 19th-century saw the Scramble for Africa, where European nations began colonizing the continent in order to expand their land empires, and to also gain this
What are access to resources?
The Spanish sent many expeditions to the new world, and their ships return home laden with gold and silver. This policy was a precursor to capitalism
What is mercantilism?
Today, America does not need to use its military to conquer new territory -- rather, they encompass it in this
What is their sphere of influence?
It can be argued that the legacy of residential schools has been passed down in the form of this, a damaging phenomena that occurs over decades
What is intergenerational trauma?
the Beothuk were declared extinct in 1829, following dying out from starvation, disease, and bounty hunting. She was the last surviving member, and is the reason we know so much about their culture today.
Who is Shawnadithit?
Sudan gained its independence in 1956. What was the main reason it fell into civil war?
What is because the North and South were of two different races/nations, and the North was economically better off, and the North was aligned with Egypt and was Muslim and wanted to force the south which was African to convert their way of life to theirs?
This thinker argued that capitalism exploited workers and supported communism as an alternative.
Who is Karl Marx?
This 19th-century poem by Rudyard Kipling was used to justify imperialism as a noble, civilizing mission.
What is "White Man's Burden"?
Loggers and Indigenous protestors were very heated at these protests in British Columbia
What are the Clayoquot Sound protests?