Anatomy of an Ally

Question 1

Band

Answer 1

the people on the same chunk of land (Indigenous peoples)

Question 2

Paternalism

Answer 2

a government taking on responsibility and controlling the rights and privileges of another group of people. (taking on a fatherly role)

Question 3

disenfranchisement

Answer 3

taking away someone’s right to vote

Question 4

status indian

Answer 4

A record of anyone under the Indian act

Question 5

How is the Indian Act paternalistic?

Answer 5

The Europeans literally controlled the clothes, traditions, rights and even languages FNs were allowed to have.

Question 6

Indian act date

Answer 6

12 April 1876

Question 7

ethnocentrism

Answer 7

one group of people thinking they are better and higher up than another culture

Question 8

What was the role of Indian Agents?

Answer 8

Indian agents were responsible for implementing government policy on reserves, enforcing and administering the provisions of the Indian Act, and managing the day-to-day affairs of First Nations people.

Question 9

who could be an indian agent?

Answer 9

They had to be European and work with the Canadian government.

Question 10

which bill reinstalled women’s status? when?

Answer 10

Bill C-31, 1985