Module Five

Question 1

How was Metis women’s gendered identity expressed?

Answer 1

• Artistic production
• Clothing
• Work

Question 2

What is an example of women’s economy in the fur trade?

Answer 2

Sewing

Question 3

Various indigenous women have experienced gendered aspects of colonization differently depending on what?

Answer 3

Time period
Location
Class

Question 4

The department of Indian affairs responsible for land claims was responsible for negotiating and implementing what three key policies?

Answer 4

Specific land claims
Comprehensive land claims
Self government agreements

Question 5

Why was the department of Indian affairs set up?

Answer 5

It had to support the Indian act

Question 6

What do newer treaties fall under?

Answer 6

Comprehensive claims

Question 7

What was the first comprehensive land claims agreement in northern Canada?

Answer 7

James Bay and northern Quebec agreement of 1975

Question 8

What was the importance of women’s sewing in the fur trade and beyond?

Answer 8

Clothing was in demand
Coats suited harsh climate
Women were employed on posts
Dressing in the fashion of the country

Question 9

Who influenced many cree women to adopt the Metis style of beadwork?

Answer 9

Melanie Blondeau

Question 10

What is gender?

Answer 10

The cultural, spiritual, historical, and day to day practice of masculinity and femininity

Question 11

What is the definition of patriarchy?

Answer 11

A system where males are privileged over females

Question 12

What is the definition of sexuality?

Answer 12

Personal and interpersonal expression of those socially constructed qualities, desires, roles, and identities, which have come to do with sexual behaviour or activity.

Question 13

What does profligacy mean?

Answer 13

Carrying on in an immoral manner

Question 14

What is abuse?

Answer 14

One person trying to control and have power over another. It can be emotionally, financially, psychologically, sexually, or physically

Question 15

What is human trafficking ?

Answer 15

The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of people by means of threat or use of purposes including profiting monetarily, socially, or politically for sexual exploitation

Question 16

What does SNWM stand for?

Answer 16

Saskatchewan’s native women’s movement

Question 17

What does IRIW stand for?

Answer 17

Indian rights for Indian women

Question 18

What does NWAC stand for?

Answer 18

Native women’s association of Canada

Question 19

What is sexual exploitation?

Answer 19

Any actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust, for sexual purposes

Question 20

What do officials blame increases of Indigenous prostitution on?

Answer 20

Natural tendencies of aboriginal women

Question 21

Where did a woman’s status come from?

Answer 21

Their father or husband

Question 22

Why was the Indian act amended with bill c-31?

Answer 22

To remove the sexist provisions of Indian membership

Question 23

What does aboriginal feminism draw attention to?

Answer 23

Issues of colonialism, sexism, and racism

Question 24

How do you define indigenous feminism?

Answer 24

An analysis and practice of gender justice that takes women’s experiences of sexism and racism seriously and seeks to end violence against all people, especially women

Question 25

What is indigenous feminism rooted in?

Answer 25

Decolonizing indigenous sovereignty movements and is a reaction against patriarchy and settler colonialism

Question 26

Among indigenous women, evidence of sexism is reflected through what?

Answer 26

High rates of domestic violence, death and poor health

Question 27

What do decolonization movements challenge?

Answer 27

Dominant myths and political, social. And economic practices that modern nation states engage in that erode self determinism

Question 28

Intersectional analysis

Answer 28

Over the years, indigenous women have come to realize the multiple positions they occupy: economically, race, ability, sexual identity, and location

Question 29

What were midwives noted for?

Answer 29

Role of ushering new life and caring for the mothers in the early post partum period

Question 30

What was fasting?

Answer 30

Abstaining from food for spiritual purposes. Boys and girls during puberty began a period of fasting and prayer to prepare for their vision quest