1950s
Inuit Arctic Relocation
What is the Canadian government convinced 87 Inuit to leave their homes?
When First Nations were given the right to vote
What is the 1960s?
Ralph Steinhauer, a lieutenant-governor, and Willie Adams, a senator, were the _____ Indigenous peoples to serve those roles.
What is First?
The first inhabitants of Canada
Who are the Aboriginal peoples?
The Canadian government tried to bring them into more "civilized" ways
What is the Indigenous people?
The organization that caused the mass removal of Aboriginal children from their families
What is the Canadian Government?
Hydro-Québec and the government of Quebec did not get their permission to initiate the James Bay Project
Who are Indigenous communities?
The purpose of the Indigenous Rights Movement
Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord
Hint: relocation
What is where the Inuit were forced to stay?
To achieve equality among all Canadians by eliminating ______ as a distinct legal status
What is Indian?
For $225 million, the Cree and Inuit communities surrendered their ____ ______.
What is land claims?
Groups of people living in the far north vs. groups of people that resulted from unions between Aboriginal and European people
What is the difference between Inuit and Métis?
Tommy Prince
What is one of Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldiers?
To achieve equality by regarding Aboriginal peoples simply as citizens with the same rights, opportunities and responsibilities as other Canadians.
Hint: White _____
What is the White Paper?
Things Willie Adams advocated for for the Indigenous people (name 4)
What is Indigenous peoples’ education, health care, infrastructure, land claims, fishery allocations, affordable food, housing and fuel, and culture?
Where the activists of the Indigenous Rights Movement went after failing to persuade the Canadian government.
Hint: Two places (city/state and continent)
What is the United Nations in both New York and Europe?
The paternalistic legal relationship between the Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian federal government who treated them like “children” requiring control and direction
Hint: Status _____
What is Status India?
Aboriginal children were removed from their families into the child welfare system (in most cases without the consent)
What is the Sixties Scoop?
An organization founded in 1974 that supports the socio-economic, political and cultural well-being of Indigenous women in Canada
Hint: (NWAC)
What is The National Native Women’s Association of Canada?
The individual who led the Indigenous Rights Movement
Hint: "Tonight the music seems so loud 🎶"
Who is George Manuel?