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The main goal of the Indian Residential Schools in Canada.
What is to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian society?
The Sixties Scoop.
What is a government policy that took children away from their families?
The lasting effects of past injustices like colonization and residential schools.
What is historical trauma?
One goal of decolonization for First Peoples.
What is to reclaim culture, land and identity?
A nation imposes its own social, cultural, religious, economic, and political systems and values.
What is colonization?
'Decolonization's meaning for Indigenous communities
What is returning to traditional ways, restoring rights, reclaiming culture and land...
Racism that is part of laws and institutions.
What is systemic racism?
Trauma passed down from one generation to the next.
What is intergenerational trauma?
A nation establishes political control over another nation or region.
What is colonialism?
The process of "undoing colonialism."
What is decolonization?
The Indian Act
What is a Canadian law that controls many aspects of First Peoples lives?
The purpose of TRC.
What is to document the history and impact of residential schools and to promote healing?
Adopting another culture and losing one's own.
What is assimilation?
The reason for massive depopulation of Indigenous communities.
What is diseases like smallpox and influenza?
There are over thirty of these that are actively used in BC.
What are languages?
MMIWG
What is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls?
Self-Determination for First Peoples.
What is having control over their own communities and decisions?
Indigenous title
What is ownership of land based on pre-contact occupation and use?
The year of the last revision to the Indian Act.
What is 1985?
This inquiry held from 2015 to 2019 as a response to a national crisis.
What is the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls?
Land set aside by the government for Indigenous communities
What is an Indian Reserve?
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1991).
What is a report that studied Indigenous issues and made recommendations?
Efforts by missionaries to convert First Peoples to Christianity.
What is missionization?
This social welfare practice began in the 1960s.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
The final report of this included 94 Calls to Action which recommended future actions be made by various groups.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)?