Definitions
A person who speaks English
What is an Anglophone?
Controlled aspects of First Nations lives without giving them consent. There were laws about how they were governed including what land they reserved.
What is the Indian Act?
The Constitution Act 1982 recognizes French and English as official languages
What are the collective rights of Francophones and Anglophones?
Become part of a different cultural group
What does it mean to Assimilate?
Indigenous children were forced to go to these places in attempt to take these children away from their communities and force them to abandon their culture.
The Indigenous peoples had the right to practice their culture and traditions.
What collective rights did the Indigenous peoples have that affected what they believed and practiced
To validate and express commitment to something
What does it mean to Affirm?
This established Manitoba as a bilingual province and ensured Metis land rights.
What took place in the Manitoba Act?
Independence as a people, with a right to self-government
What is sovereignty
A agreement where Canada was securing their right to raming and land, however the Indigenous felt as if they weren't honoring the spirit of the treaties which lead to disputes
What are the Numbered Treaties?
authority to make decisions
What is Autonomy?
The belief that one culture is superior to another
What is Ethnocentrism