Mi’kma’ki & Treaty Rights
Communities & Cultures
Politics & Confederation
Economic Opportunities
Vocabulary Vault
100
These agreements between the Mi’kmaq and the British are called the _____ treaties.
What are the Peace and Friendship Treaties
100
These three provinces make up “the Maritimes.”
What are Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island?
100
This level of government is responsible for healthcare and education.
What is the Provincial Government?
100
She developed two businesses: delivering luggage and provisions from ships using a wheelbarrow, and a wake up service.
Who is Rose Fortune?
100
The study of places and how people and environments interact.
What is Geography?
200
The Mi’kmaw homeland has been known as this since time immemorial.
What is Mi’kma’ki
200
This term refers to Black communities with deep historic roots in Nova Scotia.
Who are Africain Nova Scotians?
200
This level of government runs local services like roads, recreation, and zoning.
What is Municipal Government?
200
In West Pubnico, families carved these tiny wooden pegs to keep lobster claws closed.
What are lobster plugs?
200
The system of making, buying, and selling goods and services.
What is the economy?
300
This 1876 federal law controlled many parts of First Nations life and governance.
What is the Indian Act?
300
This is a French-speaking commmunity of people in the Maritimes with a distinct history, culture, and flag.
Who are the Acadians?
300
This level of government is responsible for defence, foreign policy, and the postal service.
What is the Federal Government?
300
When Mi’kmaw communities lost much of their land, these items (made from ash wood, spruce roots, sweetgrass, and sometimes quills).
What are baskets?
300
A source of information created during the time we are studying.
What is a primary source?
400
Traditional Mi’kmaw decision-making often aimed for this: agreement that everyone can support.
What is concensus?
400
This group brought Gaelic language and traditions to parts of Nova Scotia (especially Cape Breton).
Who are the Gaels?
400
This idea means the government must keep the support of the elected assembly to stay in power.
What is responsible government?
400
At the Whiley sawmill, workers processed logs into this building material.
What is lumber?
400
A source of information created to help explain the past.
What is a secondary source?
500
This Mi'kmaq governing body is made up of representatives from the seven district councils in Mi'kma'ki.
What is the Grand Council?
500
The forced removal of Acadians beginning in 1755 is known as the _____.
What is the Expulsion of the Acadians (Le Grand Dérangement)?
500
Confederation (Canada becoming its own country) happened in this year.
What is 1867?
500
Rose Fortune is strongly connected to this Nova Scotia town.
What is Annapolis Royale?
500
Fairness that gives people what they need to succeed (not always the exact same thing).
What is equity?