Module Two

Question 1

What kind of diseases did the Europeans bring over?

Answer 1

Small Pox

TB (not all forms)

Question 2

Roughly what percent of the Indigenous population was wiped out?

Answer 2

90-95%

Question 3

How did disease travel?

Answer 3

Through the trade routes

Question 4

How many numbered treaties are there?

Answer 4

11 but they do not cover then entire country

Question 5

What treaties are place on Saskatchewan soil?

Answer 5

2,4,5,6,8,10

Question 6

What is the largest treaty and where is it located?

Answer 6

Treaty 6 covering most of Saskatchewan.

Question 7

What is so special about treaty 6?

Answer 7

It holds the medicine chest

Question 8

What was the main goal of confederation?

Answer 8

To take the Indian out of the Indian

Civilize the savages

Question 9

What year was the Indian Act established?

Answer 9

1876

Question 10

What was an Indian Agent?

Answer 10

An individual who became the person who had total control

Question 11

What was the Royal Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 11

It was prior to confederation and it helped to set up treaty negotiations: land west of the appellations had to be negotiated. It was a peaceful way to give Indians their land rights

Question 12

What Indigenous groups are found in Saskatchewan?

Answer 12

• Cree
• Lakota, Nakota, Dakota
• Dene
• Soteau

Question 13

Where were the Assiniboine located?

Answer 13

Saskatchewan
Alberta
South west Manitoba 
Northern Montana 
Western North Dakota

Question 14

Where were the Blackfoot located?

Answer 14

Southern Alberta

Montana

Question 15

Where were the Gros Venture located?

Answer 15

Red River Valley (Manitoba)
North Dakota
Montana

Question 16

The Cree covered the largest territorial range, where were they found?

Answer 16

James Bay
Northern Ontario 
Great Plains
Montana
North Dakota 
Manitoba 
Saskatchewan 
Alberta 
Rockies

Question 17

Where were the Saulteaux (Ojibwa, Chippewa, and Anushinabbe) found?

Answer 17

Great Lakes

Prairies

Question 18

Where could you find the Sioux ?

Answer 18

Great Plains 
Minnesota 
North and South Dakota 
Nebraska
Manitoba 
Saskatchewan

Question 19

Where were the Dene from?

Answer 19

BC
Alberta 
Saskatchewan 
Manitoba 
NWT 
Yukon

Question 20

Where were the Crow people located?

Answer 20

Missouri River in North Dakota
Yellowstone River Valley Montana
Wyoming

Question 21

What were bands made of?

Answer 21

Extended families

Question 22

How large were tribes?

Answer 22

Larger then bands, roughly held from 100 to several hundred people

Question 23

What happened when some First Nations broke from their original groups in the 1600s and 1700s?

Answer 23

Led to new people’s entirely

Question 24

What is the Virgin Soil Epidemic?

Answer 24

New waves of diseases that were able to come across in large waves because there was no immunity to the new diseases brought over by the Europeans

Question 25

What does Androcentrism mean?

Answer 25

Placing the male experience as the centre of all views

Question 26

How were early negotiations handled?

Answer 26

Two row wampum belt

Question 27

What was the Indian Act?

Answer 27

A piece of Canadian legislation (1876) that defined all aspects of First Nations lives on reserves

Question 28

What were the three main areas of the Indian act

Answer 28

• Allocation of reserve lands
• Definition of Indian Status
• Granting of enforcement authority to federal government

Question 29

What are the four main sections of the medicine wheel?

Answer 29

Physical self
Mental self
Emotional self
Spiritual self

Question 30

What would happen under the Indian Act if a First Nations woman married a non status or non-indigenous man?

Answer 30

She would lose her status and be seen as assimilated as a Canadian