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Question 1

What Indigenous group developed a modern governing body called Eeyou Istchee to represent their rights to self determination and economic development?

Answer 1

Nehiyawak (Cree)

Question 2

What Indigenous group displays constitutional activism by creating its own Council, Constitution, Proclamation, and electoral process?

Answer 2

Haida

Question 3

The Indian Act impacted Indigenous community structures by:

Answer 3

Removing the Indian status of a woman who married a non-status man

Question 4

What specific governmental strategy contributed to a First Nations person being enfranchised?

Answer 4

The Indian Act

Question 5

The response to the White Paper was written by:

Answer 5

Harold Cardinal

Question 6

What Constitutional amendment acknowledges and secures Indigenous rights?

Answer 6

Section 35

Question 7

Describe the resulting actions after Cardinal’s response to the White paper?

Answer 7

Galvanization of indigenous political will and leadership

Question 8

Who was the leader of the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood during the White Paper?

Answer 8

Dave Courchene

Question 9

Governmental policies of assimilation provoked Indigenous activism, what group presented the Red Paper to the federal government.

Answer 9

National Indian Brotherhood

Question 10

Indigenous activism in Canada can be partly attributed to what 1970s US movement?

Answer 10

American Indian Movement

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT an Indigenous activist or scholar?

Answer 11

Jean Chretien

Question 12

Native People’s Caravan is a good example of:

Answer 12

A grassroots organization

Question 13

Which of these is NOT an organized political Indigenous entity.

Answer 13

Civil Rights Movement

Question 14

The Red Power movement can be described as:

Answer 14

The mobilization of Indian people’s activism

Question 15

A specific system of government used by the Teslin Tlingit to validate Aboriginal rights and traditions through the effective control of traditional lands and resources.

Answer 15

Aboriginal Nation Model

Question 16

This Indigenous entity uses the Aboriginal Nation Model for its system of government.

Answer 16

The Teslin Tlingit

Question 17

The Aboriginal Nation Model does NOT include:

Answer 17

A free car

Question 18

Affirming existing Aboriginal and treaty rights was part of the Canadian government’s:

Answer 18

Amendment to the Canadian Constitution

Question 19

What was the primary motivation for Harold Cardinal to write the Citizens Plus document?

Answer 19

The White Paper

Question 20

Section 35 amended Canada’s Constitution to:

Answer 20

Affirm existing aboriginal and treaty rights

Question 21

According to the Indian Act, an “Indian” was:

Answer 21

Men (as well as any wives and/or children) belonging to a band that had a reserve.

Question 22

The paternalistic nature of the Indian Act is apparent from:

Answer 22

Indians being considered as minors.

Question 23

What Indigenous group is guided by the oral political constitution called the Great Law of Peace of Gayanshagowa?

Answer 23

Kanien:keha’ka (Mohawk)

Question 24

What specific governmental strategy contributed to the loss of status for First Nation status women who married non-status men?

Answer 24

The Indian Act

Question 25

An amendment to the Indian Act included empowering the Superintendent General to:

Answer 25

enfranchise people against their will.

Question 26

Western conceptions of land do not include:

Answer 26

the spiritual realm

Question 27

TEK stands for:

Answer 27

Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Question 28

Traditional Denésƍliné knowledge of caribou movements provides insight into:

Answer 28

decision making about managing herds.

Question 29

The Privy Council affirmed that Aboriginal title existed “at the goodwill of the Crown”, this finding was overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada in which case:

Answer 29

Calder

Question 30

The responsibility of the government to act in the best interest of Aboriginal peoples is:

Answer 30

A fiduciary duty

Question 31

From a colonial perspective, the numbered treaties were used primarily to:

Answer 31

open up lands for European settlement and resource extraction

Question 32

The Van der Peet case underlines that protected rights are those:

Answer 32

integral to a distinctive culture.

Question 33

The displacement of Aboriginal peoples from their territories exacerbated by increased settlement brought about by:

Answer 33

Canadian Pacific Railway

Question 34

The government of Canada forcibly relocated the Inuit in the 1950s in order to:

Answer 34

enforce Canadian claims to sovereignty in the North

Question 35

Which one of the following impacts of resource development is specifically tied to the loss of Indigenous people’s connection to land?

Answer 35

Mental and spiritual health

Question 36

Which one of the following is not representative of Indigenous responses to the impacts of resource development?

Answer 36

monitoring by the federal environmental agency

Question 37

Community-based monitoring means that:

Answer 37

Indigenous communities monitor their own lands in their own unique way.

Question 38

One of most persuasive arguments for Indigenous language revitalization is that:

Answer 38

there is a loss of meaning when words are translated into English.

Question 39

The Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve was the first:

Answer 39

cooperative management agreement between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government.

Question 40

The main challenge to co-management and community-based management is the:

Answer 40

lack of recognition of traditional Indigenous knowledge.

Question 41

A fiduciary duty is:

Answer 41

The responsibility of the government to act in the best interest of Aboriginal peoples

Question 42

The legal challenge brought by the Musqueam Indian Band against the Department of Indian Affairs resulted in:

Answer 42

A finding that the federal government owed the Musqueam damages

Question 43

Aboriginal title refers to:

Answer 43

Use and jurisdiction over specific parcels of land

Question 44

Some Inuit chose to relocate in order to:

Answer 44

enjoy the benefits of a settled lifestyle

Question 45

The Calder Case recognized the existence of Aboriginal title. Which was the first land claims
case thereafter where Aboriginal title was granted?

Answer 45

Tsilhqot’in

Question 46

Concepts of Indigenous gender include:
Gender was seen as being on a spectrum

Question 47

In Matrilineal societies Indigenous men were:

Answer 47

Leaders - chosen by Clan mothers