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Social Studies 10, unit 2A Flashcards

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Legacy

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something that has been passed on by those who lived in the past

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Paternalism

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making all decisions for the people you govern, employ , or are responsible for, so that they can not make their own decisions. Acting like a father/parent

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Animistic

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Belief that all objects, nature, and all creatures/animals have a spirit

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Numbered Treaties

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Series of 11 treaties made between the crown and the First Nations. 1871-1921

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Hudson’s Bay Company

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May 2, 1670. Fur-trading business. colonization of British North America development of Canada. 17th century

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Beothuk

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meaning “the people or the true people”. Indigenous people who traditionally inhabited Newfoundland. Small population. Indigenous oral history.

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Shawnadithit

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Record keeper of Beothuk history and culture. Captured by english furriers in 1823. Beothuk identity.

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Indian Act

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  1. relationship between federal government and Indigenous peoples.
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Sundance

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Indigenous traditional dance and ceremony. Done on the Praries. Coming of age. Involves a large pole.

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Potlach

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Indigenous traditional dance for a claim the chief made. The chief would give away all his wealth. Done on the east coast. Ceremony.

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Red paper

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Given to Canadian government to PM Pieree Trudeu when he tried to remove the Indian Act

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Enfranchisment

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removing Indian Status and taking full canadian citizenship status.

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European Worldview

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Triangle: individual, heierarcy, land is to be used for progress and to be owned.

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Indigenous Worldview

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Circle: collective, everyone is equal, land stewardship, equality of land, animals, and nature, animistic.

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Henry Hudson

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  1. Hudson Bay, trying to find Northwest Passage.
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Martin Frobisher

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  1. Sailed for England - Frobisher Bay. Thought he found gold, Fool’s gold , Pirite.
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Jacques Cartier

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  1. Sailed for France to discover gold and other valuable things. Gulf of st. Lawrence. Name “Canada”. Trade with Indigenous (cure survey). Thought he found Diamond, Canadian Diamond, Quartz.
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John Cabot

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  1. Commissioned to find Northwest Passage to Far East (western Europe predominatly Roman Catholic). Found oil, whales, lamp oil, lubircant for machines, corsets, buggy whips, toothed whales, piano keys/chess pieces - claimed area for Britain.
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Eurocentrism

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The belief that European society is superior to all others. Europe is the center.

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Worldview

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Your outlook on situations affected by culture, beliefs, values….

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Ethnocentrism

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Refers to a way of thinking that centers on one’s own race and culture. Ethnocentric people believe that their worldview is the only valid one.

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Mercantilism

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based on the idea that a nation’s wealth and power were best served by increasing exports and reducing imports.

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Vikings

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1000 AD. Norse, “to raid”, treasured weapons, swords, axes, helmet. Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Norway), longships. Belief in Valhalla - pagan - history recorded as sagas.

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Skraelings

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meaning “Barbarian”. Indigenous/native people who were encountered by early Norse settlers to Greenland.

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Norse Sagas

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stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia. Connected to the vikings.

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L’Anse aux Meadows

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site of an 11th-century Norse outpost at the tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. Vinland Sagas. UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978.

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Fur Trade

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early 17th to the mid-19th centuries. trapping of beavers to satisfy the European demand for felt hats. established relationship between Europeans and Indigenous people, and had a role in the development of Canada.

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Northwest passage

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The Northwest Passage is a sea corridor through Canada’s Arctic archipelago and along the northern coast of North America. European explorers searched in vain for the passage for 300 years, intent on finding a commercially viable western sea route between Europe and Asia.

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Scurvy

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disease caused by a dietary deficiency of vitamin C. Common amongst europeans explorers. Indigenous had a “cure”, a tea

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Colonization

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the act of taking control of an area or a country that is not your own, especially using force, and sending people from your own country to live there. Sometimes assimilation attempts.

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Elder

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Someone with knowledge and is considered superior. Often well respected. A large component of Indigenous culture.

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Oral History

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Oral history is an account of the past transmitted by word of mouth. Used by many Indigenous communities.

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Inuktitut

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Indigenous language in North America, spoken in the Canadian Arctic.

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Seal Hunt

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The hunt takes place in the Spring when the seals come up to the surface of the ice to breathe. The entire animal is used for food, clothing, and other

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Settlement

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an agreement to end a disagreement or dispute.

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Nunavut

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“Our Land” in Inuktitut. The creation of Nunavut in 1999. the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.

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Sled dogs

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help with hunting and travel and freighting. Can withstand frigid temperatures.

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Status Indian

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legal identity defined by the Indian Act. It applies to some Indigenous peoples in Canada who fit the criteria for status as laid out in the Act.

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Reserves

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land set aside by the Canadian government for use by First Nations. Reserves are managed under the Indian Act.

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Indian Agent

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the Canadian government’s representatives on First Nations reserves from the 1830s to the 1960s. Indian agents implemented government policy, enforced and administered the provisions of the Indian Act.

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Residential Schools

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government-sponsored religious schools that were established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture. Run by Roman Catholic Church.

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Depopulation

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the action of causing a country or area to have fewer people living in it.

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Catholicism

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the faith, practice, and church order of the Roman Catholic Church.

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White Paper

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A government white paper is a Cabinet-approved document that explains a political issue and proposed legislation to address it. The purpose of a white paper is to introduce a new government policy to test the public’s reaction to it.

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cultural genocide

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the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements that make one group of people distinct from another.

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Residential schools in Alberta

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Residential schools in Canada

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136

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Years of residential schools

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1870s - 1996

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