What is the land set aside for First Nations groups as part of their treaty negotiations know as?
100
In this worldview, man is seen to hold dominion over nature, including plants and animals, and is expected to both dominate and rule over this "adversity"
What is a Eurocentric (or tragic) worldview?
100
This piece of federal legislation dictates "who's in and who's out in Indian country," and also sets out laws that impact the everyday lives of First Nations people
What is the Indian Act?
100
The idea behind both the "Indian Act" and the residential school system that the "Indians" would eventually disappear into mainstream society leaving behind their unique cultures
What is assimilation?
100
An alternative signature applied to the works of Janvier as a political statement of his oppression
What is "Treaty No. 287"?
200
A group of people who are of Aboriginal ancestry but who do not received special treaty rights either due to disenfranchisement, "marrying out," or other limiting criteria embedded within the Indian Act
What is non-status Indian?
200
This person acts as a spiritual intermediary between the people of the Earth and the spiritual realms, often conducting ceremonies to establish communication between the two parties
What is a shaman?
200
An imperializing movement to take over the land and natural resources of indigenous people around the world starting in the 1600s that gained momentum until the late 1800s
What is colonization?
200
An evaluative factor imposed upon the art of Native Americans in the early 20th century to deem whether it was traditional, or not
What is authenticity?
200
This artist evolved her artistic style from eye-catching and personal pieces to huge installation works that addressed global concerns from a local standpoint
Who is Joane Cardinal-Schubert?
300
The three groups of people, recognized by the 1982 Canadian Constitution Act, as having indigenous ancestry
Who are Aboriginals?
300
These two forms (or shapes) are said to encompass how a European worldview differs from an Aboriginal worldview
What is linear and cyclical?
300
These paintings and sketches by European artists of the Wild, West West depicted a "savage versus civilized" dichotomy
What are "frontier paintings"?
300
The name applied to utilitarian objects made by Aboriginal people by anthropologists and ethnologists thus delegating these items to a sphere beyond that of fine art
What is craft?
300
An all-Native group of artists who appropriated their naming from a Euro-Canadian group of artists (who had appropriated Native imagery in their works)
What is the "Indian Group of Seven"?
400
In landing on the shores of the Americas, Christopher Columbus mistakenly named the highly diverse, multilingual and multicultural nations scattered across the continent this
What is an Indian?
400
These events are a way of giving thanks to the "Creator" for blessings received within the Aboriginal community
What is feasting and/or gift-giving (ie potlatches)?
400
This exhibition featured the lives and times of the Native people of Canada and became an area of much controversy at first, and ultimately solidarity for Native groups, within the 1960s
What is the Indian Pavilion at The World Expo 1967?
400
This entity existed in all indigenous societies even though, linguistically, it had no presence until very recent times
What is "art"?
400
This artist holds a Science degree and was raised by a German foster mother in an urban setting far away from her birthplace of Fort Chipewyan
Who is Jane Ash Poitras?
500
On the Blood reserve, the Kainai people call their Trickster figure by this name
What is Napi (the Old Man)?
500
This event typically takes place when a person reaches adolescence and is seeking the aid of spirit-helpers (or spirit animals)
What is a vision quest?
500
A growing trend by Aboriginal people to reclaim their identity, their voice and their stories
What is decolonization?
500
The "taking back" of cultural objects from museums and other collectors by those Aboriginal groups who originally owned them
What is "repatriation"?
500
This installation piece transformed into an interactive performance piece and would offer its viewers an "alternative history" (or "revisionist history) from that of the standard textbook variety