Vocabulary
Collective Rights & Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Collective Rights & First Nations
Collective Rights & Official Language Groups
Collective Rights & the Metis
100
What is "scrip"?
What is "a document that could be exchanged for land and that was offered to the Metis at the time the Numbered Treaties were negotiated."
100
What legislation establishes collective rights of groups in Canada?
What is "constitution, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Indian Act, Numbered Treaties".
100
What are the Numbered Treaties?
What is "historic agreements that affect the rights and identity of some First Nations peoples in Canada".
100
How are Francophone and French Immersion schools different?
What is "Francophones schools provide instruction for Francophone students whose first language is French and affirm the identity of Francophone students. French Immersion schools offer instruction for students in French, although French is not the students' first language."
100
What land rights were the Metis given through the Manitoba Act?
What is "the Metis would receive more than 500 000 hectares of land in addition to the farms they had established along the Red River."
200
What is publicly funded?
What is "paid for by taxes and provided by government."
200
How are collective rights different than individual rights?
What is "collective rights are for groups of people (that are written into our constitution), and individual rights are for independent people."
200
How did the Royal Proclamation of 1763 benefit the First Nations?
What is "it recognized the First Nations rights to land and established the principle of making treaties with First Nations through peaceful negotiation".
200
What are the Charter rights of official language groups?
What is "official bilingualism and minority language education rights."
200
Why did many Metis people find it difficult to use their scrip?
What is "they couldn't use their scrip to establish large areas of land to live together."
300
What is "official language minority"?
What is "A group that speaks one of Canada's official languages and that does not make up the majority population of a province/territory."
300
Why do some groups have collective rights and not others?
What is "collective rights recognize the founding peoples of Canada."
300
Why were the Numbered Treaties sacred to First Nations?
What is "they were nation-to-nation agreements that could not be changed without their agreement, and they were meant to be created so that First Nations peoples and Europeans could live in harmony."
300
Which province is officially bilingual?
What is "New Brunswick".
300
How did the Metis view the Northwest Resistance? How did the Canadian government view this event?
What is "The Metis thought it was a way to assert their rights and the Canadian government thought it was an attempt to overthrow Canada's authority."
400
What are "collective rights"?
What is "rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canadian society for historical and constitutional reasons."
400
What groups hold collective rights in Canada?
What is "First Nations, Metis, Inuit, Francophones and Anglophones."
400
What historical events did the Numbered Treaties respond to?
What is "the building of a railroad across Canada, the avoidance of war with USA, First Nations wanted to secure their social and economic future which had been damaged due to smallpox and the eradication of the buffalo, and the Royal Proclamation of 1763 guaranteed the rights of First Nations to lang which needed to be negotiated through treaties."
400
What two items did the BNA Act give Francophones and Anglophones?
What is "French and English as the official languages of Canada, the right to publicly funded Catholic/Protestant schooling."
400
Why is Louis Riel seen by some as a "Father of Confederation"?
What is "because he upheld the rights of Aboriginal peoples and Francophones in Western Canada."
500
What does "affirm" mean?
What is "to validate and express commitment to something."
500
What is a collective identity?
What is "the shared identity of a group of people; especially, because of a common language and culture."
500
How do the interpretations of the Treaties differ between the Canadian government and the First Nations?
What is "the Canadian government believed First Nations gave up their land under the treaties; First Nations disagreed because they didn't believe in land ownership. They believed it was a way to share the land peacefully."
500
What two things did the Manitoba Schools Act do in 1890?
What is "abolished public funding for Catholic schools and made Manitoba an officially "English only" province."
500
How did the recognition of the right to land affirm the collective identity of the Metis in 1990?
What is "the Metis were recognized as a legitimate people; they now had a HOME, a place where they could live together; they could now manage their own affairs."
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