Unit 7 - The Métis Period: Métis Identity, Repression & Resistance

Question 1

This specifically outlined that 1.4 million acres of land were to be allocated to Métis children and heads of families.

Answer 1

Section 31 of the Manitoba Act

Question 2

This confirmed the title of old settlers, Métis or white,
who had possessed land in Manitoba prior to 15 July 1870

Answer 2

Section 32 of the Manitoba Act

Question 3

The term describes the gendered status provisions inherent in the Indian Act, noting that even after the 1985 amendments, the trajectory of the status provisions entailed that Indigenous Peoples would in short order “become extinct as a legally defined people”.

Answer 3

“logic of elimination”

Question 4

The people are a post-Contact Indigenous people with roots in the historic Red River community.

Answer 4

Metis

Question 5

People who wish to exercise Aboriginal rights based on identifying as Métis still must satisfy the three-point _________________: self-identification, ancestral connection to a historic Métis community, and acceptance by a modern Métis community.

Answer 5

Powley test

Question 6

A men’s hooded jacket sewn from a Hudson’s Bay Company blanket.

Answer 6

Capote

Question 7

A white infinity symbol on either a blue (French ancestry) or red (English ancestry) background—also appeared in the 19th century. It remains a Métis symbol today.

Answer 7

Metis flag

Question 8

Annie Bannatyne (5Ws)

Question 9

Dorothy Chartrand (5Ws)

Question 10

Victoria Calihoo (5Ws)

Question 11

Louis Riel (5Ws)

Question 12

Victory of Frog Plain (AKA Battle of Seven Oaks) (5Ws)

Question 13

Explain the concept:
Decline of the buffalo hunt

Question 14

Explain the concept:
Forcefield of settler colonialism

Question 15

Explain the concept:
Historians neglecting stories of women

Question 16

Explain the concept:
Roles of women at Fur Trade Forts

Question 17

Explain the concept:
Why is saying Metis are mixed inaccurate