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Legal Beagal
Roots Grow Deep
Trick or Treaties
First is First after all....
Languages Schmanglages...
100
First Nation, Metis and Inuit people groups.
What are Aboriginal People groups in Canada.
100
The shared identity of a group of people.
What is Collective Identity?
100
The document, signed in 1763 by the King of England that set the standard for peaceful agreements in a "nation to nation" approach with Indiginous peoples.
What is the Royal Proclamation?
100
Independence as a People.
What is sovereignty?
100
Anglophone
What is a person whose first language is English
200
Four pieces of legislation that have protected and promoted the rights of Fracophone Canadians.
What is the Quebec Act, BNA, Official Language Act, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
200
A document for the Métis that could be exchanged for land.
What is scrip?
200
The amount of money set aside by the Federal Government to fulfill Education, Healthcare, Land Reserves, and more, for First Nations peoples.
What is seven billion dollars?
200
The process of taking on another culture.
What is assimilation?
200
She fought to create the first publically funded Francophone school in Edmonton.
Who is Claudette Roy
300
The section of the Charter that guarantees the right of publicly funded Francophone schools to exist in Alberta and publicly funded Anglophone schools to exist in Quebec.
What is Section 23 of the Charter of Rights?
300
The Canadian Government did not see fit to respond to their protests around land rights. There are no signed Treaties with the Metis. They had to leave settlements because they did not have the title. Their needs and rights were often overlooked because a drive to push through the "progress" of the railroad, and their culture, which views land not as something to be owned, but as a legacy to be cared for, did not mesh with the business minded Federal Government.
What are reasons Metis peoples struggled to find permanent lands to live and flourish on?
300
An annual payment, under the treaties, these are mostly symbolic today.
What is an annuity?
300
The belief that one's culture is superior.
What is ethnocentrism?
300
A Francophone school is meant for students who have French as their first language, while a French Immersion school is for English speakers who want to learn French.
What is the difference between a Francophone and an Immersion School.
400
Part of the reason the treaties were negotiated.
What is the over hunting / depletion of the buffalo, disappearing fur trade and sweeping sickness.
400
The systemic effort to "Kill the Indian - Save the Child" through mandatory attendance at work house / "educational" facilities.
What is the Residential School System?
400
A group that speaks one of Canada's official languages and that does not make up the majority population of a province.
What is an Official Language Minority?
500
Two different cultures came together with different languages, two perspectives, and varying interests.
What is the reason Treaty rights are challenging to interpret?
500
Understandings change over time, as society changes, and voices once silenced begin to be heard.
What is the reason the Indian Act has been changed so many times?
500
Because Indigenous cultures obviously need to be taken care of. Plus, we Canadians are peaceful people. We certainly want to avoid any nasty wars like our neighbors to the south! We have a railroad to build! Let's get on with uniting the country from Coast to Coast!
What is why the treaties were signed from the Canadian Government's Perspective.
500
Lead by Louis Riel, the resistance that forced the Canadian government to take the Métis seriously, with land and education rights won, showing the Métis some hard earned respect.
What is the Red River Resistance?
500
The document that aimed at protecting the French Culture in Quebec to the point that, for a time, to use English on a business sign was illegal.
What is Bill 101