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What does patriate mean?
To give a country what belongs to it.
The Numbered _______ have roots in the __________ __________ of 1763
Treaties, Royal Proclamation
What year was the Indian Act created?
1876
The mainly French province in Canada
What is Quebec?
Which groups have collective rights in Canada?
Inuit, Metis, Anglophone, Francophone, First Nations.
From 1875 to 1879, what did Canada's government offer to Métis people instead of establishing Métis lands?
Scrip
What section in the Canadian Constitution states the collective rights of First Nations people?
Section 35
Which branch of government has the power to make changes to the Indian Act?
The Federal Government (Legislative Branch)
The act that made Canada a bilingual country.
What is the BNA Act?
Who led the Red River Resistance?
Louis Riel
Who founded Québec?
Samuel de Champlain.
What is the definition of annuity?
An annual payment. Under the numbered treaties, annuities are mostly symbolic.
What is the name of the official who controls life on the reserves and reports to the government?
Indian Agents
This Section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects the right to receive education in either English or French.
What is Section 23?
What are the 3 laws that apply to FN Collective Rights?
Indian Act, Constitution, historic and modern
What do the Sun Circles in the Siksika nation represent?
What terms were in the written versions of Treaty 6? (Name 5 of the 8)
Health care, education, hunting and fishing rights, reserves, farming assistance, payments, annuities and special benefits
What restrictions did the Indian Act give to First Nations people?
1. Defined how First Nations peoples had to conduct their affairs, such as band elections, although First Nations had their own ways of governing themselves.
2. Restricted the right of First Nations people to travel freely, to take political action, to wear traditional dress, and to take part in traditional ceremonies.
3. Required First Nations people to give up their legal identity and Treaty rights to gain the right to vote.
Sara owns a small shop in Quebec and was fined for refusing to use French in her advertisement. What law requires French to be used in business signs and ads.
What is Bill 101?
Why are the Numbered Treaties sacred to the First Nation?
They are nation-to-nation made agreements, solemnly made, that cannot be changed without their agreement. The treaty rights and citizenship go together for the First Nations now, in the past and into the future.
What is the MSLPA, and what is its purpose?
It confirms the transfer of about 1.25m acres of land to the Metis Settlement General Council, and it stands for Metis Settlements Land Protection Act.
What was the name of the association that set aside land during the Metis Betterment Act?
L’Association des Métis de l’Alberta et des Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Residential schools removed ________ from their ________ and disrupted their connections to their ________ , ________ and ________.
Residential schools removed children from their families and disrupted their connections to their languages, cultures and identities.
How did the Haultain Resolution and NW Territories ordinance Number 22 affect language rights in Alberta?
Required English as the language of instruction in all schools. Ordinance Number 22 required English in NW Territories schools.
What collective rights do official language groups have under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Explain.
Official bilingualism - the right for Canadian citizens to conduct affairs with the federal governments in French or English , Minority language education rights - the right for a French or English-speaking minority of a sufficient population in any province has the right to publicly funded schools for that language community