Treaties and Perspectives
Permanent agreements between the Canadian government and First Nations, numbered in the order they were concluded.
What are the Numbered Treaties?
The Prime Minister who introduced the National Policy.
Who is John A. Macdonald?
The primary goal of the Canadian government in creating residential schools.
What is to assimilate First Nations children
The police force established in 1873 to pacify the West and deal with American traders.
What is the North West Mounted Police (NWMP)?
The Act that was passed in 1867, establishing the Dominion of Canada.
What is the British North America Act?
The perspective of Canada regarding who owned the land under the treaties.
What is that Canada owned the land?
One of the three main goals of the National Policy
What is promoting Canadian industry, finishing the transcontinental railway, or encouraging western settlement?
The organization that worked with the Canadian government to run residential schools.
What is the church?
The violent incident in 1873 involving traders that convinced Prime Minister Macdonald to speed up the creation of the NWMP.
What is the Cypress Hills massacre?
The vast expanse of flat land stretching across the western provinces that the Canadian government wanted to populate with farmers.
What are the Prairies?
The perspective of the First Nations regarding who owned the land under the treaties.
What is that the land is meant to be shared?
The National Policy used this to make Canadians buy Canadian products over cheaper American ones.
What are tariffs (or taxes) on imported goods?
The specific aim of separating children from their families and banning Indigenous languages in these schools.
What is to disrupt the transmission of cultural values and identity from one generation to the next?
This Métis leader led uprisings in the West to protect Métis and Indigenous rights.
Who is Louis Riel?
Alberta has the highest population of this group of people outside of their home country.
What is Ukrainians?
How the Canadian government recorded the treaties, contrasting with First Nations oral traditions.
What is that they wrote them down in written contracts?
This massive infrastructure project was a key component of the National Policy to connect the country from sea to sea.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
The commission that spent six years travelling across Canada to hear from residential school survivors, laying the foundation for truth and reconciliation.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
The fate of Louis Riel following the 1885 rebellion in present-day Saskatchewan.
What is that he was tried and executed for high treason?
The year the province of Manitoba was established as a result of the first Métis uprising and Ottawa's negotiations.
What is 1870?