Indian Act
This 1876 law gave the Canadian government control over many aspects of Indigenous life.
The Indian Act
The Canadian government used this system to assimilate Indigenous children through education.
Residential Schools
The Sixties Scoop officially began in this decade
1960's
This major Christian denomination ran many residential schools in Canada.
Catholic Church
Residential schools were designed to do this to Indigenous culture.
Assimilate Indigenous children
T or F: The Indian Act allowed the government to decide who was legally "Indian."
True
Indigenous land and resources were often controlled by this government role.
Indian Agent
The Sixties Scoop was carried out mainly by this provincial-level system.
Child welfare system
In 1991, this religious group issued a formal apology to residential school survivors.
United Church of Canada
Children at residential schools were often punished for speaking this.
Their Indigenous languages
This aspect of the Indian Act controlled Indigenous identity through government-issues documents.
Status Card
The government's removal of decision-making power fro Indigenous leaders is called :
Colonization
Name one long-term impact that the Sixties Scoop had on survivors.
Loss of cultural identity
Pope Francis visited Canada in 2022 and issues an apology on behalf of this institution.
The Roman Catholic Church
The last federaly-run residential school closed in this year.
1996 (Gordon Residential School in Saskatchewan)
This term refers to the process of forcibly removing someone's Indigenous legal status.
Enfranchisement
This term describes when a government forcibly imposes its rule on another community of people.
Occupation
This decade-long practice saw Indigenous children taken from their families and placed in non-indigenous homes.
The Sixties Scoop
This is one reason why survivors say apologies must go beyond words.
Action/Accountability (e.g., reparations,restortive justice)
This report, published in 2015, listed 94 Calls to Action to redress the legacy of residential schools.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report
In 1884, the Indian Act was amended to ban these important spiritual and cultural ceremonies.
Potlach and Sun Dance
Name one major impact of the governments control on indigenous sel-governance
Loss of traditional governance systems.
This Prime Minister formally apologized for the Sixties Scoop (not to be confused for the Prime Minister that formally apologized on behalf of the Federal government in 2008)
Justin Trudeau
This is a key action Inidgenous communities want to see following formal church apologies.
Concrete reparation or support for healing
Name one of the emotional, physical, or cultural impacts that residential schools had o survivors and their communities.
Trauma, loss of language, loss of culture, intergenerational trauma