Quiz 2 - Chapter 4

Question 1

when did indigenous people get citizenship?

Answer 1

1960.

Question 2

between 1701 - 1923 how many treaties were signed?

Answer 2

more than 70 formal treaties.

Question 3

how many modern treaties? (since 1975) covering what percent of land?

Answer 3

26. covers approximately 40% of Canadian land.

Question 4

what are the ways to colonize/claim land?

Answer 4

empty of people (no one was there), defeat in war, treaty.

Question 5

how many formal treaties since 1701?

Answer 5

at least 70.

Question 6

what are the treaty periods?

Answer 6

i) first contact to royal proclamation
ii) royal proclamation - confederation
iii) post-confederation
iv) modern (1975-present)

Question 7

wampum, describe.

Answer 7

peace, power, and righteousness, the lines were represented as settlers and indigenous meaning they will never cross paths and disturb one another.

Question 8

what was the war of 1812?

Answer 8

american troops were invading british north america, white house was burnt.

Question 9

year of confederation?*

Answer 9

1867.

Question 10

when was douglas treaty and how many treaties? why did it stop?

Answer 10

1851-1854, 14 treaties. because douglas was no longer in power.

Question 11

what year did HBC sell the land to Canada?

Answer 11

1868.

Question 12

what is section 91(24)?

Answer 12

indians and lands reserved for indians - federal jurisdiction.

Question 13

why were the metis upset when HBC sold land to CAD?

Answer 13

because they did not get the chance to buy it.

Question 14

when was treaty one signed?*

Answer 14

1871.

Question 15

how many treaties are there?

Answer 15

11.

Question 16

when was the MB act?*

Answer 16

1870.

Question 17

what were the land cession treaties? what was the issues.

Answer 17

to give up; settlers interpretation was that land was given up, indigenous interpretation was that it was to be shared.

Question 18

commonalities between treaties?

Answer 18

most have annuity payments, farming supplies, reserve land, annual hunting and fishing supplies, medicine chest (treaty 6)

Question 19

what does sui generis mean?

Answer 19

unique, meaning that treaties are unique agreements to avoid calling them nations.

Question 20

year of indian act?* what was it?

Answer 20

1876. cradle to grave, governs indians.

Question 21

when was the constitution act?

Answer 21

1982.

Question 22

what section are treaties protected under?

Answer 22

section 35.

Question 23

what are the two types of claims?

Answer 23

specific and comprehensive.

Question 24

whats the difference between the two types of claims?

Answer 24

specific - i know what I am owed, (land).

comprehensive - when no other treaties have been signed therefore it is unseeded land.

Question 25

what are the two types of aboriginal rights?

Answer 25

site specific rights –> rights that are practiced on the land. Doesn’t own the land but can do practices on. (hunt)
title –> ownership of the land.

Question 26

when was the JBNQA?

Answer 26

1975.

Question 27

sum up the JBNQA.

Answer 27

hydrodams, seperated into categories 1,2, and 3, not until the 60’s/70’s did QC get interested in talking to the cree.

Question 28

what are the categories?

Answer 28

1 - indigenous land.
2 - prov. land BUT indigenous had the management & decision making.
3 - very vague, essentially called shared land but it is special prov. land.

Question 29

where have treaty rights been recognized and affirmed?

Answer 29

in constitution act in section 35.

Question 30

what are the international laws for claiming land?

Answer 30

1) abandoned.
2) war.
3) treatied.

Question 31

when was the royal proclamation and what did it declare?

Answer 31

1763, declared all lands west of the Appalachian mountains to be British sovereign territory reserved for the Native people’s use and benefit. (established that they are a nation under OUR care)

Question 32

what was the last treaty to be signed in CAD before a five decade moratorium on treaty negotiations?

Answer 32

the william’s treaties in 1923.

Question 33

what was the first treaty in the modern treaty period?

Answer 33

JBNQA in 1975 followed by Northern Quebec Agreement - 1978.

Question 34

who was the indian act enforced by?

Answer 34

indian agent.

Question 35

what was the goal of the indian act?

Answer 35

assimilation.

Question 36

when did the last residential school close?

Answer 36

1996.

Question 37

what did bill c-31 do?

Answer 37

amend the indian act and give it more gender equality from 1951 forward.

Question 38

what did bill c-3 do?

Answer 38

addresses past 1951 with gender inequality.

Question 39

what were the models for classifying status indians?

Answer 39

6. 1 - both parents are status.
7. 2 - one parent is status.
8. 3 - dead indian.

Question 40

what is the B.C Treaty Commission?

Answer 40

environment of open communication between the FN and provincial leaders.