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Chapter 8 Flashcards

1
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Refers to the , acquisition, expansion, exploitation
of territory that belonged to one group of people by another group of people who are not original
peoples of the area

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Colonization

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“The wealth of Indigenous peoples, their land and
resources, have effectively been stolen for
generations.

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settler colonialism

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The first inhabitants of a land who have experienced the colonization of their land and cultures

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Indigenous

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4
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is a term used to describe Aboriginal peoples
of Canada who are ethnically neither Métis nor Inuit.

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First Nations

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refers to a collective of cultures
and ethnic identities that resulted from unions
between Aboriginal and European people in
what is now Canada.

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Metis

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Aboriginal peoples who live in the far northern and artic regions of Canada. They are distinct culturally and legally from First Nations peoples and the Metis

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Inuit

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intended to create mutually agreed
upon conditions for the relations
between Indigenous peoples and
settlers, including relations for the
sharing of land and resources
“Each day that Indigenous rights are
not honoured or fulfilled, inequalities
between Indigenous peoples and
settler society grows”

A

treaties

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8
Q

Each day that Indigenous rights are
not honoured or fulfilled, inequalities
between Indigenous peoples and
settler society__________

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grows

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9
Q

Multiple treaties were signed pre-
confederation by

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British government

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10
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series of numbered treaties signed post-
confederation starting with Treaty
No 1 (1871): Ojibway and Swampy
Cree of Manitoba.

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Numbered treaties

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11
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The territory that is now called Windsor is covered by the ….

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Upper Canada Treaties

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12
Q

Many if not all
treaties were written in such a way
that it appears that First Nations
surrendered all of their rights to land in
exchange for _______ and ________

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for small reserves and
meagre compensation.

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13
Q

Important to recognize that there are two versions of treaties based in the different cultures and
traditions of Indigenous peoples and settler
colonizers:

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oral and written

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14
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-gorunded in the traditions of indigenous people
-what is said and promised verbally

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oral

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-grounded in the traditions of settler people.
- what is written down and signed

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written

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Q

Even though treaties are intended to be entered into equally from positions of mutual respect and agreement, the government of Canada’s interpretation of treaties today clearly reflect the intersts and perspectives of _________ over that of _______________.

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  • colonizers
  • Indigenous peoples
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17
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Recognized version

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written version

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18
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Written version is in what language?

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in language of the settler colonizers

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19
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Resolution of disputes is through what system?

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through the systems of the settler
colonizers (legal system and courts)

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Indigenous perspective:
Oral agreements based on an understanding that:

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  • Treaties are not a surrender of the land and resources but are agreements about the sharing of land and resources.
  • Treaties are based in peaceful co-existence, friendship, mutual respect.
  • Treaties reflect a nation to nation relationship.
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21
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Designation by the Supreme Court of Canada for
territories in which there is no signed
agreement/treaty on how to share the land

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Aboriginal title lands

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22
Q

Almost _______ in Canada is not under a
treaty

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half of the land

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23
Q

First significant legislation concerning Indigenous
peoples in Canada; issued by King George III. Recognized Indigenous land rights and self-government.

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Royal Proclamation of 1763

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24
Q

Indicated land could only be relinquished via
“____________” to the Crown and recognized
that tribal councils still made decisions about their
own people.

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voluntary cessions

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25
Q

“Those nations that did not treaty,
therefore, should have been
_________under these agreements,
but instead they were, and are,
forced continually to __________

A
  • protected
  • forced continually to fight to have
    their jurisdiction over their land
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26
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surrender land implies…

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that one owns the land (that it is private property that can be transferred from one owner to
another)

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27
Q

Established Canadian federal government and
asserted its control over Indigenous affairs
Asserted the federal government’s exclusive
authority to “legislate in relation to Indians and the
lands reserved for Indians”

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British North American Acte

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28
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True or false? Federal control officially replaced Indigenous self governments under Canadian law (in the eyes of settler colonizers, not in the eyes of Indigenous peoples who never consented to such a replacement)

A

True

29
Q

Under Canadian law, asserted Canadian
government’s complete control and authority over
the Cultural, Social, Economic Political.

Activities of those persons defined in the act as an
“Indian”

A

Indian act of 1876

30
Q

The indian act under Canadian law, asserted Canadian government’s complete control and authority over the:

A
  • Cultural
  • Social
  • Economic
  • Political
    Activities of those persons defined in the act as an
    “Indian”
31
Q

were created from the 1876 Indian
Act and designed to undermine and replace centuries of traditional governments across Canada. They were, and are extremely limited in their authority and entirely subject to officials in the federal government

A

Band councils

32
Q

True or false: Band councils are sovereign, abide by ancestral law, have definitive connection with
traditional culture and govern nothing outside of
their respective reserves.

A

False

33
Q

Under international law a band council…

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  • has no substance
  • no meaning
  • no standing
  • They cannot enter into treaty or trade compacts with a nation.
  • they cannot abide by a distinct Native justice system
  • they cannot create their own banking system
  • they cannot design their own homes
  • they cannot buck the social service apparatus which has strangled any
    attempt by Indigenous people to rise above their
    oppressive circumstances
34
Q

No law can be passed, enacted or enforce by the
band councils without ______________

A

the express consent of the
federal government.

35
Q

The Indian Act is a paradigmatic
symbol of Canada’s _____________over
First Nation lives.

A

oppressive social control

36
Q

True or false:In indian act determined who could call themselves ‘Indian’ creating two classes of Indians-
Status and non-Status-based on racialized and
gender stereotypes.

A

true

37
Q

Indian act defined who was an “Indian” under Canadian law:

A
  • Male person of Indian blood belonging to a
    particular band
  • Child of such person
  • Any woman who is or was lawfully married to
    such a person
38
Q

applied provincial laws to Status
Indians

A

1951 amendment

39
Q

what was the result of 1951 amendment?

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  • Status Indians were now officially effected by
    provincial policies re: education and child
    welfare
  • child welfare policies began to be enforced on
    reserves, resulting in the widespread removal
    of Indigenous children from their communities
    and culture (Sixties Scoop)
    45
40
Q

Until 1985 when the Indian Act was amended,
Indigenous women with Status who married non-
Status Indians lost their Indian Status (as did their
children)

A

gender discrimination

41
Q

True or false: Indigenous men who married non-Status women, however, were able to retain their legal Status

A

true

42
Q

true or false: Only Indigenous women who married Status Indian men had the legal Indian Status

A

true

43
Q

refers specifically to a parcel of land and
is not synonymous with nation,
community or band; the community
that occupies a reserve will often
have a different name than the
reserve itself.

A

Reserve system

44
Q

is a legal term referencing a tract of land set aside under the Indian Act and relevant treaties for the exclusive use of members of a specific Indian band

A

In canada, a reserver

45
Q

What is reserve referred to in america?

A

reservation

46
Q

True or false :The lands are are owned by the band but not held in trust by the Crown

A

false; are not owned, held in trsut by the crown

47
Q

The creation of reserves in Canada was a means of

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exerting colonial power and “regulating and controlling First Nations movement and ways of living

48
Q

At the stroke of a pen, reserves divided up not only
lands but ________

A

people and Nations that had existed for
hundreds if not thousands of years.

49
Q

families, houses and clans that had hunted and gathered together for generations were abruptly and arbitrarily joined with other families and houses, disrupting __________ and long-established kinship systems that determined
who could hunt, fish, and gather in a particular area

A

social networks

50
Q

True or false: A reserve is different than a First Nation’s traditional territory, as the reserve borders were imposed by the government and
often excluded important traditional territories

A

True

51
Q

traditional territories are the lands occupied by a _________ over generations that hold _________for that Nation

A
  • first nations
  • significance
52
Q

The reserve system relocated some First Nations to reserves in areas that were ……

A

completely disconnected from their
traditional lands and territories

53
Q

According to the Indian Act, only __________ could live permanently on a reserve, unless the Nation has adopted other residency regulations stipulating who may live there

A

registered Status Indians

54
Q

The Indian Act also gave the Minister of Indian Affairs significant control and authority over reserve activities… Give an example

A

construction of houses on reserves (which were
based on Western nuclear family units rather than
designed for extended families)

55
Q

who apologized on behalf of the Canadian government for the residential school system

A

Prime Minister Stephen Harper

56
Q

true or false :the apology from stephen harper came after the implementation of the Indian Residential School Truth and reconciliation commission.

A

true

57
Q
A
58
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what are the limitations?

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  • The apology was only limited to abuses suffered in the residential school system
  • No acknowledgement of treaty violations
  • No acknowledgement of theft of land or resources
  • No acknowledgment of historical and ongoing institutional racism
59
Q

the destruction of those structures and practices that allow the group to continue as a group

A

cultural genocide

60
Q

Canada’s cultural genocide included…

A
  • Destruction of political and social institutions
  • seizure of land Restriction of movement
  • Prohibiting use of language
  • Persecution of spiritual leaders
  • Prohibition of spiritual practices
  • Disruption of families to prevent the transmission
    of cultural values and identity from one generation to the next.
61
Q

Felt that all people should be equal and no one
group should be allowed to have a special
relationship with the government

A

The white paper

62
Q

who was strongly opposed to giving any
group in Canada “special status” or “special rights”

A

Pierre Trudeau

63
Q

The white paper recommended____________ of Indigenous peoples to lands and services and the disbanding of the Indian Affairs Department.

A

removing the entitlement

64
Q

the white paper recommended __________ for First Nations to the provinces from the federal government

A

transferring jurisdiction

65
Q
  • Response of Indigenous chiefs in
    Alberta to the White Paper
  • Asserted the distinct legal and cultural
    rights of Indigenous peoples
  • Called for cultural pluralism Self-sufficiency and self-determination the goals; rejected a policy of integration.
A

Citizen’s Plus (Red Paper)

66
Q
  • Established by Parliament in 1991 in response to the Oka Crisis
  • Charged with making recommendations on how to best address historical problems between Canadian government and Indigenous people and to propose specific solutions.
A

Royal Commission on Aboriginal
Peoples

67
Q

T or F: The royal commission on aboriginal peoples consulted with Indigenous people and used traditional Indigenous teachings in molding recommendations.

A

true

68
Q

Final recommendation published in 1996 final report proposed that:

A
  • The Canadian government return to its original
    “nation to nation” relationship with Indigenous
    governments
  • The basis of this new relationship be mutual
    recognition, mutual respect, sharing, and mutual
    responsibility/

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