For First Nations, names are an ______________ part of family and cultural history.
What is integral?
These two treaties are the only historical treaties in British Columbia.
What are Treaty 8 and the Vancouver Island Treaties?
The original aim of this piece of legislation, passed in 1876, was to culturally eradicate Indigenous people from Canada.
What is the Indian Act?
According to the Royal Proclamation of 1763, this diverse group holds title to most of the land in British Columbia.
Who are Indigenous People?
This process helps to acknowledge Indigenous history and remind people of the ancestors of lands within Canadian lands.
What is Indigenous place name restoration?
In some cultures, people's names change over time according to different _________ in their lives.
What are stages?
Historic treaties cover about this much of Canada's land mass.
What is 50%?
Israel Powell banned this celebration because it violated European cultural norms that prioritize accumulation rather than distribution.
What is the Potlatch?
To hold title over land and resources means this.
What is to own the land and resources?
She resisted colonial power by insisting that colonial authorities recognize her Indigenous name.
Who is Kahentiiosta?
Place names record _____________ _____________ about local resources, the environment, and land forms.
What is traditional knowledge?
The two rows of the wampum belt symbolize this.
What is 'two equal nations proceeding side by side in peace?'
Under the Indian Act, if an Indigenous person graduated from university this would happen.
What is lose their Indian status?
Colonial powers usually purchased land from Indigenous people by negotiation treaties which aimed to ____________ Aboriginal Title.
What is extinguish or end?
According to the UN, this is a brazen violation of the Wet'suwet'en community's right to self-determination and Canada's journey towards reconciliation.
What is the construction of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline on Wet'suet'en lands?
The colonial habit of dismissing Indigenous place and personal names was a another attempt to __________ the identity of the First Peoples.
What is erase?
What is 'if there isn't a treaty agreement in place to cede land to the Crown, the original people retain title?'
The Indian Act paved the way for this regrettable and shameful aspect of Canada's history.
What is the Indian Residential School System?
This provincial Act recognizes Indigenous right to title.
What is the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act?
When we take resource extraction on Indigenous territories into account, this becomes clear.
What is that Indigenous people are subsidizing Canada.
Christopher Columbus did this in 1492.
What is arrived?
These are the elements of fair negotiation.
What are free authorized consent, reasonable value, fundamental understanding, and no significant intentional deception?
Although the Indian Act is a discriminatory piece of legislation, it is also the main law that defines the government obligations to First Nations. That is why many believe it should not be ____________.
What is repealed?
During the Vancouver Island Treaty negotiations, the Salish people did not think the treaties were a ____________________.
What is sale?
The Supreme Court of Canada decision in Delgamuukw v BC (1997) made it clear that the __________ ___________ counts as evidence when it comes to modern land claims.
What is the oral tradition?