Positionality
The definition of positionality
What is the lens through which an individual sees the world?
The three groups of people included in the term "Indigenous"
Who are the Metis, First Nations, and Inuit?
The act of establishing control over a foreign land and their people.
What is colonization?
This mountain chain runs along which coast of South America.
What are the Andes, along the West coast?
This led to the removal of Indigenous children from their homes in order to place them into adoption agencies across Canada.
What was the 60s Scoop?
The importance of positionality
What is a way to describe how your experiences and place within society shape you views.
This proclamation was signed by King George III and gave land to Indigenous people in North America
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
The three motivations often behind colonization?
What are gold, God, and Glory?
When was 1492?
The capitol city of Columbia.
Where is Bogota?
What is an example of geographic location?
These were signed by different First Nations. They traded their traditional homelands in return for medical care, education, and fair treatment.
What are the numbered Treatys?
First landing in the South, this explorer is credited with the discovery of the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This Spanish conquistador led the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
This Metis artist uses a series of small dots to create large pieces of work that look like beading.
Who is Christi Belcourt?
The difference between race and ethnicity
What are the physical characteristics of a group of people (race) versus the cultural characteristics of a group (culture)?
On the 1st of July 1867 the Crown of England purchased Rupert's Land from the Hudson Bay Trading Company without consideration of the Indigenous people living on the land.
What is the confederation of Canada (Canada Day)?
These schools were established throughout North America in an attempt to Christianize, and assimilate Indigenous children. This was a major strategy of colonization.
What were residential schools?
Three common exports from South America.
What are coffee, tobacco, sugar cane, bananas, avocado, raw fuel, corn, cocoa.
This battle lasted approximately 5 months and took place in Saskatchewan, between the Canadian authorities and a Metis group led by Louis Riel.
What was the Battle at Batoche?
The 6 components of positionality
What are ethnicity, race, geographic location, abilities, gender, social class?
This document, signed in 1876, outlines the laws, rules, and restrictions which still govern Indigenous people in Canada today. Many of the laws in this document were unfair to Indigenous people and eliminated their culture for generations.
What is the Indian Act?
The transmission of information, food, people, and disease.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
This group is an example of a revolutionary movement aimed at challenging, and in some cases overthrowing the government of Columbia.
Who are the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC)?
This band is terrible and should not be allowed to make music.
Who is Green Day?