COLLECTIVE RIGHTS
➡️ What are collective rights?
Rights held by a group rather than by individuals, often to protect language, culture, or land.
➡️ Who are Aboriginal peoples?
The original peoples of Canada, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit.
These are the regions where the Numbered Treaties were signed, covering much of western and northern Canada.
➡️ What are Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories?
A federal law that controls many aspects of First Nations life and governance.
➡️ What is the Indian Act?
The belief that one’s own culture is superior to all other cultures.
➡️ What is ethnocentrism?
➡️ What are individual rights?
Rights that belong to each person, such as freedom of expression and equality rights.
➡️ What are individual rights?
An Aboriginal people with mixed First Nations and European ancestry and a distinct culture.
➡️ Who are the Métis?
Treaties signed between First Nations and the Crown between 1871 and 1921.
➡️ What are the Numbered Treaties?
The law that created Manitoba and promised land rights to the Métis.
➡️ What is the Manitoba Act (1870)?
A preference or prejudice for or against something.
➡️ What is bias?
The part of the Constitution Act, 1982 that recognizes and protects Aboriginal rights.
➡️ What is Section 35?
Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Métis nor Inuit and often signed treaties.
➡️ Who are First Nations?
The original understanding of treaties based on oral promises and mutual respect.
➡️ What is the spirit and intent of the treaties?
The Alberta law that provided land to Métis communities in 1938.
➡️ What is the Métis Population Betterment Act?
A point of view shaped by experiences, beliefs, and culture.
➡️ What is perspective?
The ability of a group to manage its own political and social affairs.
➡️ What is self-government?
Aboriginal peoples who traditionally live in the Arctic regions of Canada.
➡️ Who are the Inuit?
A British document from 1763 that recognized Indigenous land rights and set rules for treaties.
➡️ What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
The law that brought Canada’s constitution fully under Canadian control in 1982.
➡️ What is the Constitution Act, 1982?
A Quebec law that promotes French as the primary language of the province.
➡️ What is Bill 101?
A group that is smaller in number or has less power within a society.
➡️ What is a minority?
Lands in Alberta set aside for Métis people with a degree of self-government.
➡️ What are Métis settlements?
A way knowledge, history, and laws are passed down through storytelling.
➡️ What is oral tradition?
The highest court in Canada that interprets laws and the Constitution.
➡️ What is the Supreme Court of Canada?
Canada’s only officially bilingual province.
➡️ What is New Brunswick?