Module 12

Question 1

Rising Incarceration Rates:

a. 9 times higher than the ____ average
b. ___ % of federal prison population

Answer 1

a. national

b. 20%

Question 2

In SK: Aboriginal People make up ___ of adults sentenced

Answer 2

81%

Question 3

Manitoba Aboriginal Justice Inquiry 1988-1991 was established in response to two specific incidents:

a. 1987 trial of two men for the 1971 murder of ___ Osbourne
b. 1988 shooting death of J.J ___ following an encounter with a Winnipeg ___ officer

Answer 3

a. Helen

b. Harper, police

Question 4

Royal Commission on Aboriginal People 1991-1996

a. Armed conflict at ___, blockades in BC and Ontario
b. ___ conditions in First Nation and Metis communities

Answer 4

a. Oka

b. Social

Question 5

Wet’suwet’en: The RCMP’s role in enforcing the __ gas lank injunction against the Wesuwweten raises questions about the laws and rights of indigenous peoples

Answer 5

coastal

Question 6

The authority of elected ___ and council are limited by power set out in the ___ act. They cannot make decisions about lands beyond the boundaries of First Nations ___

Answer 6

chief, Indian reserves

Question 7

Hereditary chiefs: are responsible under Wetsuweten law and governments to make decisions about their ___ lands, these are the lands they are protecting from the pipeline

Answer 7

ancestral

Question 8

Indigenous Peoples in BC hold title rights to lands in Canada which go beyond the __ boundaries. Protected in the Constitution Act 1982
a. In present day, the source province’s authority over Indigenous lands remains unsolved in Canadian __ and in 2004 Supreme Court. referred to the situation as __ ___control over Indigenous lands and resources (Therefore, not based on legal authority but rather past __)

Answer 8

reserve

a. law de facto, practise

Question 9

Aboriginal Title: the right to benefit from the land and exclude others from using the ___

Answer 9

land