Trick or Treaty
This Treaty signed in 1923, was created to clear Indigenous lands to make way for European settlements.
What is the Williams Treaty
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
This Mohawk Nation Territory straddles International borders and provincial boundaries.
What is Akwesasne?
Indigenous women represent 65% of this population
What is the number of Indigenous women in federal correctional facilities in Canada?
The original termination plan for Indigenous people
What is the Indian Act
Europeans recorded agreements in written documents, Indigenous people recorded details in these.
What are Wampum Belts
The Canadian government sent in 2,000 police and 4,500 military soldiers including armored vehicles, helicopters, jet fighters, and the navy to subdue a small Mohawk community.
What is the Oka Crisis
In present-day Newfoundland, they were the first to come into contact with Europeans, and they were exterminated systematically by bounty hunting and denial of access to their traditional hunting grounds.
Who are the Beothuk people?
This is the leading cause of death for Indigenous youth due to colonialism, discrimination, community disruption, and loss of culture and language.
What is suicide?
Created in 1763 as the only legal way Europeans could gain control over Indigenous lands.
What is the Royal Proclamation?
The intentional misinterpretation of this treaty was the cause of the forced starvation and state dependency of seven Indigenous communities.
What is the Williams Treaty of 1923?
618 out of 630 Indigenous communities have been issued this health and safety advisory which is identified as one of the greatest human rights violations by the United Nations.
What is a water advisory? (the Indigenous Foundation.org)
This system was a way of controlling the movement of Indigenous peoples and aimed at preventing large gatherings.
What is the reserve pass system
The ultimate purpose of this 'Act' was to encourage assimilation/civilization and to reduce the number of *Indians the federal government was financially responsible for. If you gave up your status you gave up associated rights and benefits.
What is the Enfranchisement Act
There are more Indigenous children in this system than there were in residential schools at the height of there use.
What is the child welfare system
In 1867, this put "Indians and Lands reserved for Indians' under the control of the Federal Government.
What is the British North American Act.
Durham Region exists within this original treaty territory.
What is the Dish With One Spoon?
After this war, Indigenous Nations lost most of their fur-trapping territory and the US negotiated over 200 Indian treaties that involved the ceding of thousands of acres of Indian lands and created reservations.
What is the War of 1812?
The goal was to assimilate to "kill the Indian in the child." The ultimate genocidal institute.
What are residential schools
Established in 1873 by Sir John A MacDonald, to serve as an active arm of colonialism to enforce laws and impose Indian Act policies like the pass system.
Who are the North-West Mounted Police?
This Declaration was created because the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was not seen as applying to Indigenous Peoples.
What is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Anthropologists discovered 11,000 artifacts dating back to the 1400's of these Indigenous peoples during the creation of a sub-division in Oshawa in 1992.
What is the Huron Confederacy?
land that is legally deemed to be unoccupied and allowed for the Crown to grant 80% of "Canada's" land base to the Hudson Bay Company.
What is Terra Nullius
Considered to be one of Canada's worst environmental disasters.
What is the mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows First Nations.
"Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the political body, and there is no Indian department."
Who is Duncan Campbell Scott