Official Language Groups
Anglophone and Francophone
Anglophone= What is an official English speaker?
Francophone= What is an official French speaker?
Publicly funded
What is paid for by taxes and provided by government?
Ethnocentrism
What is the belief that one's culture is superior to all other cultures?
Group of Indigenous people the Indian Act applies to
Who are First Nations?
Law vs Policies
Policies= what describes objectives of the government, within the law
Examples of Francophone challenges
Why did Francophones have a lower population than English speakers, finding it difficult to maintain their culture and identity?
Assimilate
What is becoming part of a different culture group?
Affirm
What does it mean to validate and express commitment to something?
The Indian Act’s original purpose
What aimed to assimilate First Nations?
Some people have collective rights while others don’t because...
Why is it because collective rights are based on Canada’s founding history and recognize the need to protect certain cultures/repair injustices?
Reasons why Canada wants to become a bilingual county
Why is it because French and English explorers found Canada therefore they both had the right to language?
Autonomy
What is authority to make decisions?
Sovereignty
What is independence as a people, with a right to self-government?
First Nations did not appreciate the Indian Act
Why did the First Nations believe they had the right to manage and administer their own affairs and didn’t appreciate that the Canadian government was trying to impose rules and restrictions on them without their permission?
A dark time in Canadian History where thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families by the government
What is the Sixties Scoop?
When Canada became officially bilingual
When was it declared official bilingualism in 1969 with French and English as official languages?
Annuity
What is an annual payment?
Scrip
What was in Metis history, a document that could be exchanged for land and that was offered to the Metis at the time the Numbered treaties?
Restrictions imposed by the Indian Act
What defined how First Nations had to conduct their affairs, restricted their mobility and from taking political action, and prevented them from participating in traditional practices?
The Numbered Treaties
What is Historic agreements that affect the rights and identity of some First Nations in Canada?
Section 23 of the Charter
What is the law that states that French-speaking or English-speaking minority populations of sufficient size in any province have the right to publicly funded schools that serve their language community?
Entrenching
What is fixing firmly within?
Inherent rights
What are rights with origins in fundamental justice?
The date the Indian Act was passed
What was passed in 1876?
Goals of the government in negotiating the numbered treaties
What is to gain access to lands in the west in a peaceful way and avoid the American difficulties?