Indigeounous rights stuff (not complete) Flashcards
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Definition of:
Affirm
To ensure something / state as a fact
First nations
A large group of people who are descended from people who first lived in Canada
Indian Act
(1985) legally distinguishes between First Nations and other Canadians
Reserve
A specific area of land granted to the first nations people where they could express their culture without much government intervention
Residential schools
“Schools” built all throughout the late 1800’s with the goal of “taking the Indian out of the child”
What did “Taking the Indian out of the child” mean?
- change the way the Aboriginal children dress
- never allow the Aboriginal children to speak their native language
- Assimilate the culture of the Aboriginal child into a more “mainstream” European culture
Definition of:
Francophone
Someone who is French speaking,
(First language is French)
Definition of:
Publicly funded
Money that comes from the government, often through taxes, that’s used to help the public through goods and services
Cultural assimilation
The process of ones culture being assimilated into another culture
(this is often done by force)
Definition of:
Annuity
Annual payments (often made by the government to Aboriginal people)
Definition of:
Entrenching
Establishing something (usually a belief, thought, or idea) so firmly it becomes hard to change
Ethnocentrism
The belief that ones culture is superior to another
Definition of:
Anglophone
Someone who is English speaking
(First language is English)
Autonomy
The belief that one has the ability to self govern
Manitoba schools act
(1890)
Abolished French public speaking in Manitoba
