Confederation
The year Canada became a country.
What is 1867?
What is Treaty 4?
The policy of assimilation that stole children from their homes and families, putting them into government/church run schools
What is residential schools?
What province was created from the Red River Resistance?
What is Manitoba?
This is the U.S. war that caused panic amongst British North Americans and is cited as one of the reasons for Canadian confederation
What is the American Civil War?
The day Canada "became" a country
(hint, it is a national holiday)
What is July 1st?
The amount of money given annually to Indigenous Peoples as per one of the terms of the treaties.
What is 5 dollars?
The year the Indian Act was created.
What is 1876?
The police force that was created specifically to "police" Indigenous people
(hint: what the RCMP used to be called)
What is NWMP (North West Mounted Police)?
The official title for the railway built in Canada.
The original four provinces of Canada.
What is Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick?
The title given to land that was not included in the Number Treaties
What is unceded land?
What happened to Indigenous women when they married a non-status "Indian".
What is lost of status?
The main leader of the Red River Resistance
(hint: he was hung in Regina for treason)
What is Louis Riel?
The first Prime Minister of Canada
What is Sir John A Macdonald?
The act that created Canada.
What is the British North America Act?
The allocated land given to Indigenous People as per the terms of the treaties
What is reserve land?
The term used to describe the way the Indian Act treated Indigenous people, which is described as "the policy of governing people by providing for their needs without giving them any rights, such as a father does to their child".
What is Paternalism?
The community in Saskatchewan that many Red River Metis relocated to, and where they Metis launched their second resistance to Canadian colonization.
What is Batoche?
The title given to the Metis, who after being ripped off on their scrip, were forced to settle on public land that were used as pathways or roads.
What is Road Allowance People (or Metis)?
The British queen who signed the BNA act and made Canada a dominion
What is Queen Victoria?
The amount of number treaties signed.
What is 11?
The three main goals of the Indian Act
What is assimilating (through enfranchisement), managing (of reserves and communities), and defining (who and who was not Indigenous)?
The type of government that was implemented during the Metis Resistances
What is provisional government?
The American (U.S. only) notion that they were destined, by God, to all of the land in North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?