True Or False

Question 1

All Aboriginal people are either Métis, FN or Inuit

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

The first Native Studies program was initiated in? Where?

Answer 2

1969 at Trent University in Onterio

Question 3

Legally defined in the Canadian Constitution of 1982 section 35 of the Constitution Act legally defines them as Indian, Inuit and Métis

Answer 3

Aboriginal Peoples

Question 4

Is not a legal term and is still used informally. A synonym for Aboriginal people but more specifically Indian or Métis

Answer 4

Native

Question 5

A term used by a few academics

Answer 5

Amerindian

Question 6

Indian leaders first coined the term blank during the constitutional talks of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Answer 6

First Nation

Question 7

They are not Indians

Answer 7

Inuit

Question 8

Formally Eskimo

Answer 8

Inuit

Question 9

Generally described as people of mixed First Nations and European ancestry who developed a culture different than both parent groups.

Answer 9

Métis

Question 10

People who are defined as Indian according to the Indian Act are referred to as

Answer 10

Status Indians

Question 11

Are those people who are neither Métis nor Inuit, but for various reasons do not fall under the Indian Act definition

Answer 11

Non-Status Indians

Question 12

Are those people who are descendants of people who signed treaties with the Canadian government

Answer 12

Treaty Indians

Question 13

Following contact between Indigenous and non indigenous peoples on turtle island, the series of acts undertaken as part of a settlement process resulted in an imposition upon indigenous peoples of cultural values religion laws and policies that favoured the newcomers. These policies and practices, despite being in an era often defined as post-colonial, continue to affect all peoples in Canada with indigenous peoples being detrimentally affected and most others favourably affected

Answer 13

Colonization

Question 14

The process of deconstructing colonial ideologies of the superiority and privilege of western thought and approaches. Through acceptance of other ways of knowing and acknowledgment of other perspectives and truths, Western thought and processes become one of many ways of understanding, being and acting.

Answer 14

Decolonization

Question 15

Is the addition of indigenous element but requires going beyond tokenism and must be based on inclusionary practices and structures that promote ongoing decolonization, creating an atmosphere for power equity and respect for other ways of knowing other truths and other ways of being.

Answer 15

Indigenization

Question 16

A journey that is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning another perspective is learning, instead, decolonization will encompass action. Will be acts that are undertaken to dismantle structures that are furthering an imbalance in power dynamics that favour mainstream Canadians

Answer 16

Individual Decolonization