Vocabulary
"A document that could be exchanged for land and was offered to the Metis at the time the Numbered Treaties were negotiated."
"scrip"
What legislation establishes collective rights of groups in Canada? (4)
What is "constitution, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Indian Act, Numbered Treaties".
"Historic agreements that affect the rights and identity of some First Nations peoples in Canada".
The Numbered Treaties?
Which Province was established as bilingual with rights for Catholics and Protestants as well as Metis land rights?
Manitoba
What land rights were the Metis given through the Manitoba Act?
What is "the Metis would receive more than 500 000 hectares of land"
Which group of people were granted the right to fish and hunt without a license in 2003 by the Supreme Court of Canada?
Metis
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."
Royal Proclamation of 1763
What are the Charter rights of official language groups?
What is "official bilingualism and minority language education rights"
"A group that speaks one of Canada's official languages and that does not make up the majority population of a province/territory."
"official language minority"
Why do some groups have collective rights and not others?
What is "collective rights recognize the founding peoples of Canada."
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."
Which province is officially bilingual?
What is "New Brunswick".
This man led the Northwest Resistance in what is today Saskatchewan
Louis Riel
"Rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canadian society for historical and constitutional reasons."
"Collective rights"?
What groups hold collective rights in Canada?
What is "First Nations, Metis, Inuit, Francophones and Anglophones."
What are two reasons why First Nations and Canada negotiated the Numbered Treaties?
What is "the building of a railroad across Canada, the avoidance of war, 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."
This 1977 Quebec law, also known as the Charter of the French Language, made French the official language of government, business, and education in the province.
Bill 101
What issues did the Metis face with temporary settlements in Alberta?
1. Did not have a title to the land
2. Unsuitable for farming, hunting or fishing
Ethnocentrism
What is a collective identity?
What is "the shared identity of a group of people; especially, because of a common language and culture."
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."
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."
As an Indigenous people of Canada, the Metis consider rights to land and rights to use the land in traditional ways as ________ _________
Inherent Rights