Indigenous-Canada Relations

Question 1

• The political and economic domination of a territory and its inhabitants by other people from another territory
• The process of one society expanding by incorporating territory and settling its people on newly conquered territory
• A system of rule, power, and exploitation, as well as a system of knowledge and representation

Answer 1

Colonization

Question 2

Colonization in which colonizing powers create permanent or long-term settlements on land owned and/or occupied by other people, often by force

Answer 2

Settler colonialism

Question 3

Belief that after death, those who were “the elect” would go to Heaven and others to Hell

Answer 3

Doctrine of predestination

Question 4

Held that indigenous people were sovereign nations for the purposes of negotiating only with the ‘discoverers’, who had the sole right to negotiate for the acquisition of land
- Indigenous people have no inherent right to lands

Answer 4

Doctrine of discovery

Question 4

a legal process for terminating a person’s Indian status and conferring full Canadian citizenship

Answer 4

Enfranchisement

Question 5

Settlements of Indigenous Peoples organized and administered by government officials or missionaries for the purpose of promoting Indigenous assimilation

Answer 5

Model Villages

Question 6

• first passed in 1876, consolidating separate pieces of colonial legislation
• governs issues related to Indian status, bands, and Indian reserves

Answer 6

The Indian Act

Question 7

refers to a specific legal identity of an Indigenous person in Canada

Answer 7

Indian Status

Question 8

refers to the degree of “Nativeness” a person possesses

Answer 8

Blood quantum

Question 9

formal process of handing over the instruments of government
long-term process involving the bureaucratic, cultural, linguistic and psychological divesting of colonial power

Answer 9

Decolonization

Question 10

recognizes the validity of Indigenous worldviews, knowledge and perspectives

Answer 10

Indigenization