Terminology
This term denotes a lack of knowledge.
What is ignorance?
This is the decade in which the 60’s scoop took place.
What is the 1960s?
Attending these became mandatory for Indian children, starting in the 1800s.
What are residential schools?
One of the main goals of residential schools was to kill this in the child.
What is the Indian?
Shki-Nesewin’s Fall Harvest booth featured this game.
What is Rock, Paper, Scissors?
This term describes the different, and usually unfair, treatment of groups or an individual of a group.
What is discrimination?
Residential schools coerced students to learn English, or this language if it were a school in Quebec.
What is French?
This is the year in which the Indian Act was passed.
What is 1876?
This term refers to the transfer through generations, like how trauma and abuse can be passed on and on.
What is intergenerational?
This was the last hiking trail Shki-Nesewin visited.
What is the Cup and Saucer?
Discriminating against, or generalizing or having a prejudice, based on race.
What is racism?
This is another term used to describe the dominant group in society. People aren’t called this based on population numbers, but rather, based on power and status in society.
What is majority?
In Anishinaabe, shkonigan means the leftovers, or, what is leftover. It is the name used for these, tracts of land set aside by the crown, for Indians.
What are reserves?
Students had no choice – these, which carried meaning, were cut off when they first got to the schools.
Shki-Nesewin hasn’t consumed this specialty food item in awhile, not since the fall season wrapped up, anyway.
What are Tallman wraps?
This is an adjective that starts with ‘p’. It describes the the restriction of freedoms or responsibilities of subordinates or dependents, like having a parent-child relationship.
What is paternalistic?
This is one of the things that can change, when people are made to adopt customs beliefs and attitudes that aren’t their own. It refers to what you think, know, or believe about yourself.
The Indian Act made this term a legal one. It was an inaccurate name given by Europeans. Today, many consider it offensive. If you have a status card, you are technically one of these.
What is an Indian?
This is the year in which the last school closed.
What is 1996?
This is where Shki-Nesewin went, that time they watched a demonstration on skinning a waawaashkesh.
What is Kenjgewin Teg?
This term describes a condition, where hardship and constraint are unjustly inflicted, either on a minority or other subordinate group.
What is oppressive?
This is the believing in, and worshiping, of a superhuman power, like a God or gods. Students were forced to adopt this, to replace and shed their indigenous spirituality.
What is religion?
The Indian Act imposed this system upon Indians. No longer could these ‘bands’ exercise their traditional forms of governance.
What is the band council system?
In Chapter 13 of Indian Horse, Saul and other boys go fishing at a nearby creek. They caught and released this kind of fish.
Shki-Nesewin played this game on two occasions - it involves making a line, or two lines, of 5 chips in each line.
What is Sequence?