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100

How many numbered treaties are there in Canada?

11

100
The Indian Act is a law in Canada. True or False?

True

100

The first Prime Minister of Canada was...

John A Macdonald

100

Who are the "children of the fur trade"?

Metis

200

What treaty number is Saskatoon in?

Treaty 6
200

The Indian Act was designed to control and oppress Indigenous people. Give one example of how the Indian Act controlled Indigenous people:

Controlled movement (pass system), economy (permit pass), politics (banning lawyers), land development (greater production effort), etc.

200

What year did Canada confederate? 

1867

200

Fur trading was most popular in the area surrounding the Hudson Bay called...

Rupert's Land

300

Name ONE region of western Canada that would NOT sign the treaties?

Northwest Coast

300

Was the Indian Act was created before, during, or after the numbered treaties were signed?

DURING: The first treaty was signed in 1871 and the last was signed in 1921. The Indian Act was signed in 1876.

300

The American Revolution would end with the Treaty of...

Paris

300

To carry a canoe with your supplies is called...

Portage

400
Give an example of the British colonies forced the chiefs of Treaty 6 into signing treaties.

Starvation, sickness/medicine

400

How many children would attend residential schools in Canada?

150,000 +

400
The War of 1812 was between the British colonies and the Americans. Why would this war begin?

The Americans had invaded, trying to take more land. 

400

Fur traders who canoed through rivers were called...

Voyageurs

500

What was the name of the first Prime Minister of Canada?

John A. Macdonald

500

Name two ways a Status Indian could lose their status. 

Signing up for the military for two years, attending university, being a woman who married a non-Indigenous man, voluntarily leaving the reserve during Indian Act, etc. 
500

What was the name of the famous Shawnee war chief who opposed selling land to the Europeans. 

Tecumseh

500

What were the names of the two fur trade companies that would merge together?

Hudson Bay Company and North West Company