Concept
Settler-Colonialism
A colonial structure that involves taking of land, genocidal assault on Indigenous people and their cultures, displacement through settlements (to identify a few aspects).
Medicine Wheel
The Medicine Wheel is an Anishinaabe teaching about health and wellbeing.
When was the TRC established?
June 1, 2008
Blackfoot is a pan-Indigenous identity
False
Explain the difference between Métis vs metis.
Métis Peoples are Red River descendants
‘Metis’ do not originate from Métis Peoples, but imagined ancestry - Eastern ’metis’:
Structural racism
Institutions, practices, and patterns of exploitation that uphold racial hierarchies
Two-eyed seeing
"Two-Eyed Seeing refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western ways of knowing and to using both of these eyes together” (Bartlett, Marshall, & Marshall, 2012, p. 335).
When was the Indian Act passed?
1876
As a member of the Canadian water polo team, Waneek Horn-Miller won the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
False, Canada won the gold at the 1999 Pan-American Games
What does Taibu mean?
A Kiswahili greeting, meaning ‘be in good health’
Deficit-based perspective
Defines Indigenous peoples as lacking resilience and agency to challenge oppressive structures; as people who are in need of "saving" or help.
UNDRIP
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
In which year did the so-called Oka crisis play out?
1990
The last residential school in Canada, public or private, was shut down in 1997.
True
What does Afrocentrism mean?
Asserting and celebrating the right of people of African descent to strive for self-determination
Intersectionality
Intersectionalty was coined by the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe the various ways in which race and gender intersect in shaping structural and political aspects of violence against women of color
Call to Action #23
In which year was the last of the Jim Crow laws, that enforced racial segregation, repealed in the US?
1965, with the passing of the Voting Rights Act.
The guest lecturer Daniel Uy is a professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto.
False
Which Call to Action focuses on Aboriginal athlete health and the North American Indigenous Games?
88
Treaties
Treaties are agreements made between the Government of Canada, Indigenous groups and often provinces and territories that define ongoing rights and obligations on all sides.
Diaspora
A group of people wholeave their native country to form a community abroad.
The Chinese head tax was abolished in which year?
1923
Natalie Welch is the director of the documentary, She Carries On?
True
The lecture on Black Leisure and the Caribbean Sporting diaspora was delivered by?
Dr Janelle Joseph