Local First Nations
Identify one First Nation on whose traditional territory Burton School is located.
What is snʕickstx tmxʷúlaʔxʷ (Sinixt)?
What is Syilx (Okanagan)?
What is Secwepemcúl’ecw (Secwépemc)?
What is Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation?
What is Ĩyãħé Nakón mąkóce (Stoney)?
What is Ktunaxa ɁamakɁis?
This is the English term often used to refer to the leader of First Nations communities.
What is a Chief?
(Nsyilxcən/Interior Salish: What is yilmíxʷəm? Pronounced: yeel-MEEXʷ-um)
(Nuu-chah-nulth: What is Tyee ḥaw̓ił and ḥaw̓iiḥ?)
(Haida Language: What is Koyah?)
When one country takes control of another country or region, establishing a settlement, or permanent part of the colony, in order to control the area and gain riches
What is colonization?
This is the English term often used to refer to the elected leader of a First Nations community?
What is an elected Chief?
(Nsyilxcən/Interior Salish: What is yilmíxʷəm? Pronounced: yeel-MEEXʷ-um)
(Nuu-chah-nulth: What is Tyee ḥaw̓ił and ḥaw̓iiḥ?)
(Haida Language: What is Koyah?)
This is the type of boat that First Nations people around Burton would use to travel.
What is a sturgeon nose canoe?
A social system where the female elders have authority over a group of people. (The word starts with an "m").
What is matriarchy or matrilineal leadership?
*Sinixt are matrilineal.
A Canadian federal law that governs in matters pertaining to status, local First Nations governments, bands, and reserves.
What is the Indian Act?
*Lets talk about this word.
This is the term used for when people vote for their leaders.
What is an election?
This practice involves consulting and honoring the First Nation whose land an event is held on. This is often done before assembly at school.
What is a land acknowledgement?
When stories, history, and knowledge are passed down by telling them out loud, from one generation to the next. These stories are not written down.
What is oral tradition?
What is oral legend, oral story?
This is land was set aside by the government of Canada in 1876 for the use and occupation of a First Nation community. Many First Nations people had to leave their homes and live here.
What is a reserve?
The whole of the natural world that encompasses First Nations traditional territories, including the geography, the plant and animal life, and the water and skies. Rhymes with "sand".
What is land?
What is salmon?
What is elk, deer, trout, camas, roots and bulbs, berries, rabbits?
A form of government where all members in a group come together to determine who will be the leader.
What is consensus?
An umbrella term used in the Constitution Act, 1982, to refer to three distinct categories of peoples: First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
What is a Aboriginal?
What is Indigenous?
*Discuss these terms.
What is the Section number of the Canadian Constitution that describes the very important Aboriginal Rights or Inherent Rights of Indigenous people in Canada? (It is the same as 5x7=?).
What is Section 35?
This animal is known as the trickster in local First Nation's legends and stories.
What is the coyote?
This type of leader is selected based on family lineage and inherits the role from a family member.
What is a hereditary leader?
A set of laws containing the basic rules about how our country operates. For example, it states the powers of the federal, and provincial and territorial governments in Canada.
What is the Constitution of Canada?
This type of leader is selected based on family lineage and inherits the role from a family member.
What is a hereditary leader?
This type of leadership is thriving in many First Nations governments today!