Unit 10 - Repression & Resistance Period: Resistance Grows & Organizes

Question 1

Highly decorated First Nations soldier that stated that he “wanted to show they [Indians] were as good as any white man.”

Answer 1

Tommy Prince

Question 2

Indigenous Veterans Day

Answer 2

Every year on November 8, Indigenous Veterans Day, we honour and celebrate Indigenous veterans who have served in missions around the world in times of war, conflict, and peace. Indigenous Veterans Day was first established in Manitoba in 1994 and has since spread across the country as a way to recognize the combat and peacekeeping efforts of Indigenous people in Canada.

Question 3

Charlotte Edith Monture

Answer 3

Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture from the Six Nations Grand River Reserve, Ontario, was the first Indigenous woman to work as a trained nurse in Canada. Monture studied at the New Rochelle School of Nursing in New York State and became a registered nurse in 1914. She served as a nurse overseas in the First World War, where she worked for an American hospital based in France, caring for wounded soldiers. Occasionally, she was sent to other medical centres across the country.

Question 4

Mary Greyeyes

Answer 4

Private Mary Greyeyes
-From Muskeg Lake, Cree Nation
-Part of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps
-After successfully passing a written test at age 20, she was accepted into the military
-The first woman to join the military in 1942
-Also the first Indigenous woman to join Canada’s armed forces, and
later became a member of the Canadian Women’s Army
Corps during the Second World War.

The armed forces tried to boost Indigenous recruitment and demonstrate Canada’s military might by posing her in a staged photo
that has since been widely circulated. Greyeyes served in a Canadian base in England, where she was tasked with cooking and doing laundry. After asking for a transfer to London, England, she cooked at the war headquarters, and was released at the end of the war.

Answer 5

Forgotten Soldiers

Answer 6

Bill C-51

Question 7

A name that still applies today to Canadian policy recognition of Métis people.

Answer 7

Forgotten People

Answer 8

Natural Resources Transfer Agreement

Answer 9

Lt. Frederick O. Loft

Question 10

WW1 Indigenous involvement (5Ws)

Question 11

WW2 Indigenous involvement (5Ws)

Question 12

Little Ice Age (5Ws)

Question 13

Northwest Resistance (5Ws)

Question 14

Explain concept:
Indian Agents and enlistment

Question 15

Explain concept:
Issues with Solider Settlement Act

Question 16

Explain concept:
Impact of the amendment to section 9 of the Citizenship Act