These two words are considered synonyms. The first is a general term used to refer to the original people of lands in which colonization and conquest have occurred. While the second is a collective term that is loosing acceptance.
What is Aboriginal and Native?
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This stage of the commission refers to the lifestyles and ways of being of Aboriginal people prior to European contact.
What is Stage 1 - Separate Worlds?
100
The forced political domination of one nation over another that is institutionalized in politics, economics and is a systematic attempt to transform culture.
What is colonialism?
200
A historical term that came from European colonization. Who falls under this term is dependent on the Indian Act.
What is "Indian"?
200
This stage referred to a period of interdependence, protection and trading.
What is stage 2 - Contact and Cooperation?
200
Legislation that provides the government of Canada the legal framework of authority over Indians and the land s reserved for Indians. The purpose of this was to control and regulate the lives of Indians.
What is the Indian Act?
300
This word came into usage in the 1970s to replace the word Native or Indian. Although it is widely used, it has no legal definition. It also generally applies to both status and non-status Indians.
What is First Nations?
300
This stage is highlighted by the distinction of civilized versus uncivilized, racial misunderstandings and power and control.
What is stage 3 - displacement and assimilation?
300
A system of schooling that was used to remove Aboriginal children from their homes and communities, and in a sense " kill the Indian in the child".
What is Residential School System?
400
This word refers to the French term for Mixed Blood, and is presently used broadly to describe people with mixed European and First nations ancestry who self-identify.
What is Metis?
400
This stage speaks a bit to our current affairs with Aboriginal people. It looks at things such as self-government and political participation.
What is stage 4 - negation and renewal?
400
The process by which a person or a group's language and, or culture come to resemble those of another group. This was the process Canadians enacted on the Aboriginal peoples.
What is assimilation?
500
These are two different groups. One which refers to the Naskapi and Montagnais First Nations People who live in Quebec and Labrador. The second refers to the Aboriginal people of Arctic Canada primarily in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and northern parts of Quebec and most of Labrador.
What is Innu and Innuit?
500
This document was created to look at government concerns in regards to Aboriginal people in terms of policy and justice.
What is The Royal Commission on Aboriginal People?
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These people represent 4-5% of the Canadian population and include the Metis, Inuit, Innu and First Nations people.