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This term describes a person whose first language is English.
Correct response: What is an Anglophone?
This term describes a person whose first language is French.
Correct response: What is a Francophone?
This 1876 law gave the federal government control over many aspects of First Nations life.
Correct response: What is the Indian Act?
This Métis leader played a key role in the Red River Resistance.
hint: think back to grade 7
Correct response: Who is Louis Riel?
This Indigenous group traditionally lives in the Arctic regions of Canada.
Correct response: Who are the Inuit?
This 1867 act helped make Confederation possible by recognizing English and French language rights.
Correct response: What is the BNA Act (British North America Act)?
This province is the only officially bilingual province in Canada.
Correct response: What is New Brunswick?
These agreements were made between First Nations and the government to share land.
Correct response: What are numbered treaties?
This 1870 act created Manitoba and promised land rights to the Métis.
Correct response: What is the Manitoba Act?
Inuit collective rights are tied closely to this concept involving land use and survival.
Correct response: What is land and traditional territory?
This Quebec law created challenges for Anglophone businesses by limiting commercial signage.
Correct response: What is Bill 101?
This 1977 law was created to protect and promote the French language in Quebec.
Correct response: What is Bill 101 (Charter of the French Language)?
This term refers to land that was never surrendered through a treaty.
Correct response: What is unceded territory?
These “tickets” to land were given to Métis families instead of reserve land.
Correct response: What are scrips?
Unlike many First Nations, Inuit agreements were often negotiated through modern treaties.
Correct response: What are land claims agreements?
Anglophones in Quebec are considered this because they do not make up the majority population.
Correct response: What is an official language minority?
Francophones in Alberta can attend publicly funded schools because of this Charter protection.
Correct response: What are minority language education rights (Section 23)?
This 1990 conflict occurred over a proposed golf course on sacred land in Quebec.
Correct response: What is the Oka Crisis?
This resistance ended with their leader being executed for treason in 1885.
Correct response: What is the Northwest Resistance?
This region was created through Inuit land claims and self-government agreements.
Correct response: What is Nunavut?
This section of the Charter guarantees minority-language education rights when numbers are large enough.
Correct response: What is Section 23 of the Charter?
This event in 1970 increased tensions around language, identity, and nationalism in Quebec, led by THIS group.
Correct response: What is the October Crisis? Who are the FLQ?
A major goal of the Indian Act was to force this process on First Nations peoples.
Correct response: What is assimilation?
This province is the only one with officially recognized Métis settlements.
Correct response: What is Alberta?
Inuit collective rights focus on protecting culture, language, and this way of life.
Correct response: What is traditional lifestyle and culture?