Clan Mothers

Question 1

How is the clan mother title passed down?

Answer 1

Hereditary

Question 2

How many clan mothers are there?

Answer 2

49

Question 3

Who chooses if chief stay or go

Answer 3

Grandmother’s may remove their authority and select new candidates

Question 4

Two other responsibilities of clan mothers

Answer 4

Naming children

Approving marriages to make sure they are not from the same clan

Question 5

What happened during the establishment of the great law of peace

Answer 5

The peacemaker planted a sacred tree on top of the war weapons

Question 6

Where did the great peacemaker war happen?

Answer 6

Great Lakes and present day, New York

Question 7

What happened during the great peacemaker war?

Answer 7

The peacemaker walked into the middle of the battle without being harmed, but battled did not stop

Question 8

Who is the executive branch

Answer 8

Onondaga

Question 9

Who is the legislative branch

Answer 9

Mohawk and Seneca

Question 10

Who is the judicial branch

Answer 10

Clan mothers

Question 11

Who is the House of Representatives

Answer 11

Oneida and Cayuga

Question 12

What did the great law of peace serve as a model for

Answer 12

The US constitution

Question 13

Why do women choose chiefs

Answer 13

They spend the most time raising them as babies

Question 14

6 things a clan mother looks for in a cheif

Answer 14

-mentor
-peaceful and good
-yearn for the welfare of people
-endless patience
-don’t clog their minds with anger
-words and action delivered calmly

Question 15

What are the Haudenosaunee masks made of and what do they represent

Answer 15

Wood and corn
Shared power of the original medicine being

Question 16

What is a condolence ceremony

Answer 16

Done in sing a prayer to clear the mind of negative sorrow, grief, and concern

Question 17

The condolence ceremony played a role in the _____ century race treaty negotiations with who

Answer 17

18th century

Haudenosaunee
Canada
USA

Question 18

When did the covenant chain operate from

Answer 18

17th century to 1750s

Question 19

Why is it called the covenant chain

Answer 19

A metaphor that relationship was a silver chain that tied white mens ships to Iroquois canoes to the Tree of Peace

Question 20

The term indigenous includes FNP people and Inuit people but not Metis

Answer 20

false

Question 21

Canadian faucet is a faucet of colonialism

Answer 21

true

Question 22

one can be aboriginal but not have status

Answer 22

yes

Question 23

most important parts of Indian Status

Answer 23

account for less than half of Aboriginal people in Canada

Can be Indigenous, or not, band, or not, Metis and Inuit don’t have it

It doesn’t define you as native or not

Question 24

a person with status is automatically a member of a band

Answer 24

false

Question 25

registered Indians can only be considered registered Indians if their names are on the department of Indian affairs roll

Answer 25

true

Question 26

when an aboriginal person regains status after having lost it with bill C-31 they are assured of acquiring band membership as a result of regaining status

Answer 26

false

Question 27

all treaty Indians are status Indians

Answer 27

false

Question 28

Metis identity is fairly easily established

Answer 28

false

Question 29

how many Metis settlements are in Alberta

Answer 29

8

Question 30

3 things the Red river Metis people developed

Answer 30

ordinate clothing
red river carts
codified laws

Question 31

three groups of Indigenous people not governed by the Indian act

Answer 31

Metis
Inuit
non-status Indian

Question 32

Two knee jerk reactions to accusations of cultural appropriation

Answer 32

-I’m just showing my appreciation for the culture
wearing a headdress as a non-indigenous person

-I don’t mind if you use things from my culture
like we can trade things from our cultures