Chapter 4

Question 1

Affirm

Answer 1

To validate and express commitment to something.

Question 2

Collective Identity

Answer 2

The shared identity of a group of people, especially because of a common language and culture.

Question 3

Collective Rights

Answer 3

Rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canadian society for historical and constitutional reasons.

Question 4

Sovereignty

Answer 4

Independence as a people, with a right to self-government.

Question 5

Annuity

Answer 5

An annual payment. Under the Numbered Treaties, annuities are mostly symbolic today.

Question 6

Reserve

Answer 6

Land for the exclusive use of First Nations

Question 7

Indian

Answer 7

First Nations sometimes use this term because it was and continues to be a term with legal and constitutional significance. It is not a term the First Nations chose for themselves.

Question 8

Entrenching

Answer 8

Fixing firmly within.

Question 9

Patriate

Answer 9

To bring to a country something that belongs to the country.

Question 10

Assimilate

Answer 10

Become part of a different cultural group.

Question 11

Ethnocentrism

Answer 11

The belief that one’s culture is superior to all other cultures.

Question 12

Indian Act

Answer 12

Federal legislation related to the rights and status of First Nations people, first passed in 1876 and amended several times.

Question 13

Anglophone

Answer 13

A person whose first language is English

Question 14

Francophone

Answer 14

A person whose first language is French

Question 15

Official Language Community

Answer 15

One of the groups in Canadian society whose members speak an official language of Canada, French or English, as their first language.

Question 16

Official Language Minority

Answer 16

A group that speaks one of Canada’s official language’s, English or French, and does not make up the majority population of a province or territory.

Question 17

Publicly Funded

Answer 17

Paid for by taxes and provided by the government.

Question 18

Inherent Rights

Answer 18

Rights with origins in fundamental justice.

Question 19

Scrip

Answer 19

In Metis history, a document that could be exchanged for land and that was offered to the Metis at the time the Numbered Treaties were negotiated.

Question 20

Autonomy

Answer 20

Authority to make decisions.