Vocabulary 1
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous population of an area.
What is colonization?
This literary device emphasises points by over-exaggerating. lt is most often used to mock opposing opinions, as a shock tactics technique, or an appeal to fears.
What is hyperbole?
The process of establishing and maintaining a respectful relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, acknowledging past harms, and taking action to address these injustices.
What is reconciliation?
This Métis leader is remembered for his role in resistance movements and as the founder of Manitoba.
Who is Louis Riel?
The Haudenosaunee philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world seven generations into the future.
What is the Seven Generation Principle?
The ability of a nation/state to govern its territory free from the control of its internal affairs by other states.
What is sovereignty?
The responsible use and protection of the environment.
What is environmental stewardship?
This Canadian law, first passed in 1876, continues to shape many aspects of Indigenous life and is widely criticised for reinforcing colonial control and limiting First Nations self-determination.
What is the Indian Act?
This 1969 policy document proposed to abolish all legal documents relating to First Nations in Canada including the Indian Act and all existing treaties.
What is the White Paper?
The Inuit language.
What is Inuktitut?
This phrase is used to describe an awareness that everything in the universe is connected. It reinforces that everyone and everything has a purpose, is worthy of respect and caring, and has a place in the grand scheme of life.
What is "all my relations"?
An umbrella term used by many Indigenous communities on Turtle Island (so-called North America) to describe people with diverse gender identities, gender expressions, gender roles, and sexual orientations.
What is two spirit?
Land or territory belonging to Indigenous peoples that has not been given up to a colonizing group or government.
What is unceded land?
There are questions about the legitimacy of this deal between the Crown and the Mississaugas as the original century deed was found blank and had no description of the land “purchased” by the Crown.
What is the Toronto Purchase?
"What is Treaty 13" is also acceptable.
This author wrote an essay in which the thesis was: Indigenous knowledge and Western science are not mutually exclusive, but complementary, with both required to see the world in its full beautiful complexity.
Points earned only by providing the authors full name spelled correctly.
Who is Robin Wall Kimmerer?
The philosophical term for ways of knowing, ways of producing knowledge, ways of sharing knowledge.
What is epistemology?
The process of Indigenous peoples revitalising their cultures, languages, traditions, and relationships with the land, while also resisting colonial systems that tried to erase them. This is about thriving through connecting with community, ceremony, and teachings, and creating futures grounded in Indigenous knowledge.
What is Indigenous resurgence?
1. The treaty signed for lands including Toronto.
2. The names of the First Nations whose traditional territory includes Toronto (hint: there are 5).
1. What is Treaty 13?
2. Who are the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabeg, the Chippewas, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat.
This international law to enshrine Indigenous rights was first voted against by Canada. In 2021 the Federal government incorporated it into Canada's domestic law.
What is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?
The meaning of the word nêhiyawêwin.
What is Cree (language)?
Consciously examining your own subjective point of view to understand how your subjectivity influences your worldview, research, and knowledge sharing
What is reflexivity?
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What is being reflexive?
Pathos is an appeal to the emotion of the reader. Give THREE (3) examples of writing techniques authors use to create pathos.
What are:
- anecdote
- inclusive/exclusive language
- appeal to guilt
- humour
Principles that historically declared all non-Christian lands "discoverable" by imperial powers that continue to influence Canadian law, particularly in how Indigenous land rights are interpreted.
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
This 1995 land occupation in Ontario, sparked by the federal government’s failure to return reserve land to the Stoney Point First Nation, led to the death of Dudley George and exposed systemic failures in how Canada responds to Indigenous land claims.
What is the Ipperwash Crisis?
According to the film Red Fever (2024), there is much evidence to suggest the American Constitution and model for democracy was heavily influenced by this First Nations alliance.
What is the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?