The Métis
Influential Métis leader who advocated for Francophone language rights and Métis settlements
Who was Louis Riel?
Document that established Canada as bilingual and bicultural.
The BNA Act (1867)
This is when the last residential school closed.
What was 1996?
Under this section of the constitution, the Métis are recognized as one of Canada's Indigenous peoples.
What is section 35?
These section of the Charter (1982) establish official bilingualism in Canada.
Section 16-20.
This document restricted First Nations mobility rights, rights to participate in traditional ceremonies and created residential schools.
What is the Indian Act?
After this event, the Canadian government responded by restricting Métis and First Nations mobility and freedom.
What was the Northwest Resistance?
This piece of legislation was challenged after the creation of the charter on the basis of equality rights and freedom of speech.
Bill 101 (la charter de la langue française)
Policy put in place by the Federal government to administer treaty agreements.
What was the Indian act?
Act negotiated by the Manitoba provisional government and the Canadian government following the Red River Resistance.
What is the Manitoba Act?
This piece of legislation restricted francophone language and language education rights in the Northwest Territories.
What was the Haultain Resolution.
What were the reasons that First Nations signed the numbered treaties?
This was issued to Métis after the Manitoba Act as the Canadian government's way of meeting it's promises.
What is scrip?
Suppressed francophone and Metis rights, and contravened promises of the Manitoba Act
What was the Manitoba Schools Act?
Trauma, whose effects are passed down and felt by generations.
What is intergenerational trauma?