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The federal government uses this law to administer Indian status, local First Nations governments and the management of reserve land.

What is The Indian Act

100

A place that Indigenous children were taken to to advance the process of assimilation by the Canadian government.

What are Residential Schools?

100

To speak two or more languages.

What is Billingualism.

100

People whose native language is English or who speak English because they live in a country where English is one of the official languages.

What is an Anglophone?

100

A series of eleven agreements signed between the First Nations, including reserve lands, annuities, and hunting/fishing rights 

What is Numbered Treaties

200

Indigenous people of Canada's territories and parts of Greenland and Alaska.

Who are the Inuit people?

200

A set of land set aside for first nations under the Indian Act.

What is Reserve

200

The process of absorbing one cultural group into another.

What is Assimilation.

200

The section of the Charter that requires provincial and territorial governments to provide education to Canadians in the official language of their choice, even in areas where a minority of residents speaks that language.

What is Section 23?

200

Groups of people whose maternal or chosen official language is not the majority language in their province or territory.

What are Language Minorities?

300

1 of 3 recognized Indigenous Peoples in Canada, that include Status and non-Status "Indians".

Who are the First Nations?

300

The province in Western Canada that is not fully accounted for with Numbered Treaties

What is British Columbia?

300

To assert something, such as a judgment or decree, as valid or confirmed.

What is Affirm?
300

Meaning to fix firmly within, synonyms include: establish, cement, ingrain, embed

What is entrenching?

300

All five founding cultures in Canada are protected under this 

What is the constitution?

400

3 services for First Nations that were guaranteed under the numbered treaties

What is healthcare, education, hunting/fishing rights, reserves, annuities, etc. 

400

Independence as a people, with a right to self-government. Independence, self-governing, autonomous, self-determined are some synonyms

What is sovereignty?

400

The amount of groups that hold collective rights in the United States 

Where are there no groups with collective rights? 

400

The signing of this act in 1867 created an officially bicultural/bilingual Canada  

What is the British North America (BNA) Act?
400

Payments made to First Nations to honour obligations set out in historical treaties. The treaties provide for an annual cash payment, ordinarily distributed at treaty events or by individual cheque

What is Annuity

500

The Constitution of Alberta Amendment Act granted this Indigenous group self-determination 

Who are the Metis?

500

The method that traditional Indigenous societies used to record histories 

What is oral history/documentation?

500
Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.


What is Ethnocentrism

500

The section(s) of Canada’s Charter established French and English as Canada’s official language

What are sections 16-20?

500

Meaning to bring to a country something that belongs to the country: Synonyms include: to bring home, to bring back

What is patriate?