Deck 7: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Repairing the Relationship

Question 1

What event marked the beginning of Aboriginal policy in what was to become Canada?

A) The Royal Proclamation Act
B) British North American Act
C) The Indian Act
D) The Constitution Act

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Those who believe the problems in Aboriginal communities are the result of colonialism tends to define the situation in Aboriginal communities as a (n) problem?

A) Indian
B) Assimilation
C) Aboriginal
D) Canada

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What term describes the government policy initiative that tried to increase Aboriginal control over the administration of local issues?

A) Assimilation
B) Accommodation
C) Integration
D) Devolution

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The government has been slow in responding to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs. What grade did the Assembly of First Nations assign to the government for its responses ten years after publication of the 1996 report on Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?

A) B
B) C
C) D
D) F

Question 5

In what year was the Indian Act passed.

A) 1876
B) 1901
C) 1919
D) 1951

Question 6

What expression describes the notion of "being Aboriginal" (i.e. a shared awareness of Aboriginal differences) as grounds for challenging the relational status of aboriginal peoples in Canada?

A) Red Power
B) Sui Generis
C) Aboriginality
D) Citizen plus

Question 7

Aboriginal policy has evolved through several stages. Which of the following is NOT regarded as a policy stage?

A) Integration
B) Genocide
C) Devolution
D) Conditional autonomy

Question 8

What term describes the idea that the lives and life chance of Aboriginal peoples would improve if only they became 'more like us' (i.e. like the mainstream)?

A) autonomism
B) integrationism
C) conditional autonomy
D) assimilationism

Question 9

Generally speaking, Aboriginal peoples claims for self-determining autonomy and self- government in Canada are consistent with the model of "domestic dependent nations" in the United States.

A) Institutional
B) Municipality
C) Nation
D) Sovereignty

Question 10

According to the 2006 Census, how many people reported having aboriginal ancestry, that is, some aboriginal origins in their genealogical past?

A) Just under 800,000
B) Approximately 1.7 million
C) Approximately 2.2 million
D) Just over 3.2 million

Question 11

Aboriginal proposals for renewing the relationship with Canadian society are discussed at three levels of engagement. Which of the following is NOT included in this list of engagement?

A) Taking aboriginal difference seriously
B) Addressing poverty and powerless in Aboriginal communities
C) Recognizing Aboriginal title and treaty rights
D) Promoting Aboriginal models of self-determining autonomy

Question 12

In 2006, approximately what percentage of individuals self-identified as Aboriginal in Canada?

A) 5.8 per cent
B) 3.8 per cent
C) 9.0 percent
D) 1.8 percent

Question 13

Membership as status Indian is based on certain criteria. Which of the following is NOT a criterion for status Indian membership?

A) Cultural distinctiveness
B) Admittance to a general registry in Ottawa
C) Affiliation with one of 633 bands
D) Fall under the jurisdiction of the Indian Act

Question 14

What city in Canada has the largest Aboriginal population?

A) Winnipeg
B) Toronto
C) Thunder Bay
D) Saskatoon

Question 15

According to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, what is the single most important barrier that precludes improving the relationship of Aboriginal peoples to Canadian society?

A) Cultural differences
B) Poverty levels
C) Misguided government programs
D) A broken relationship

Question 16

Debates over Aboriginal self-governance tend to focus primarily around the politics of ?

A) Jurisdiction
B) Statehood
C) Secession
D) Authority

Question 17

Canada's constitution recognizes three major categories of Aboriginal peoples. Which of the following is NOT constitutionally defined as an aboriginal group?

A) Inuit
B) Status Indians
C) First Nations
D) Metis

Question 18

What expression describes the idea that, because of their distinctive constitutional status, Aboriginal peoples possess rights that differ from those of ordinary citizenship?

A) Sui generis
B) Post colonial
C) De facto
D) Devolution

Question 19

According to Alan Cairns, what term describes the idea that Aboriginal peoples in Canada have the same rights as all Canadians as well as additional rights because of history and their constitutional status?

A) Aboriginal-Minus
B) Conditional autonomy
C) Citizens-plus
D) Devolution

Question 20

What document formalized the federal government's commitment to normalize its relationship with Aboriginal peoples by introducing the principles of integration as Aboriginal policy?

A) The Indian Act
B) The Constitution Act
C) The White Paper
D) The Multiculturalism Act

Question 21

Aboriginal peoples are increasingly rejecting the colonial social contract that continues to inform their relationship with central authorities. Proposed instead is a social contract that emphasizes the importance of a power sharing partnership.

A) Post colonial
B) Pre colonial
C) Neo colonial
D) Un-colonial

Question 22

According to studies by Cornell and Kalt, a sustainable level of Aboriginal economic development on reserves requires a solution.

A) Cultural
B) Political
C) Social
D) Economic

Question 23

What label best captures the idea that Aboriginal peoples continue to control land and resources that they have occupied continuously prior to European contact and have not yet been formally and explicitly ceded to the Crown? Aboriginal .

Question 24

While a commitment to assimilation to solving the so called "Indian problem" reflects the logic of modernization, a commitment to autonomism as a solution reflects the logic of theories.

Question 25

Two types of treaty claims can be discerned. One is based on specific treaty claims, while the other involves treaty claims.

Question 26

According to the text, what model best describes a commitment to the principles of citizen-plus as a framework for solving the so-called "Indian" problem?

A) Autonomy
B) Assimilation
C) Accommodation
D) Absorption

Question 27

What label best describes Canada's current Aboriginal policy? Conditional .

Question 28

Two types of treaty rights exist; one is based on specific claims to violations in existing treaties, while the other involves the creation of modern day treaties and is called

A) Aboriginal land title claims
B) Specific Land Claims
C) Sui Generis Land claims
D) Comprehensive treaty claims

Question 29

According to Alan Cairns, what concept best describes a claim that aboriginal peoples have the same rights as all Canadian citizens, in addition to special rights because of their status as descendants of the original occupants? Citizen-

Question 30

The Act of 1876 defined the criteria for an Indian status, although it was not until 1951 that this Act defined who was an Indian.

Question 31

Passage of the Act in 1763 is thought to have inaugurated a new relationship between Aboriginal peoples in Canada and the British Crown.

Question 32

What term describes a shared awareness of Aboriginal differences as grounds for challenging the relational status of Aboriginal peoples in Canada?

Question 33

According to the text, the social contract that defines the relational status of Aboriginal peoples in Canada has evolved over time. Which paradigms (or models) best describes the current relational status. -colonialism?

Question 34

The Delgamuukw ruling confirmed the principle of (i.e. continuous Aboriginal ownership of land that had never been formally extinguished by treaty or conquest)?

A) Aboriginal Title
B) Self Determining Autonomy
C) Sui Generis
D) Citizen Plus

Question 35

Canada is second only to as the country with the highest proportion of Aboriginal peoples to the non Aboriginal population.

Question 36

Passage of the Indian Act in 1876 symbolized a commitment to as official Aboriginal policy.

Question 37

Constitutionally speaking, the term Aboriginal peoples includes several legally distinct groups, including status Indians, Metis, and .

Question 38

The move to de-segregate Aboriginal peoples during the 1960s by transferring them off reserves into cities reflected a commitment to the principles of as government Aboriginal policy.

Question 39

According to the text, because the foundational principles of Canada's constitutional order remain largely undisturbed, what kind of colonial arrangement continues to underpin and inform Aboriginal peoples lives? -colonial

Question 40

What is the name of the government policy that emphasized the principle of transferring program responsibility from the federal government to the Aboriginal communities?