Deck 7: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Question 1

Identify Aboriginal agencies and services in your community.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Provide a video review of The War against the Indians (1992) (NFB).

Answer 2

As an AI language model, I'm unable to provide video reviews. However, I can offer you a written summary and review of "The War Against the Indians" (1992), a documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

Question 3

Provide a video review of For Angela (NFB), 1995.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Provide a video review of Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child (NFB).

Question 5

What Aboriginal or Inuit peoples are found in your province/territory? Identify one famous Aboriginal person in your province and provide a brief history of his or her life and achievements. If you were to learn the language of the largest Aboriginal peoples group in your province/territory what language would you learn and where would you go to learn this language?

Question 6

Identify three issues that have been in the media about Aboriginal peoples in Canada and specifically in your province/territory within the past six months.

Question 7

Identify five Aboriginal individuals who have made significant contributions to Canada. Provide a brief biography and identify their achievement.

Question 8

Explain the meaning of three Aboriginal ceremonies.

Question 9

Provide a book review of one of Ian Ross's books.

Question 10

Find two different Aboriginal stories. What are the purposes of these stories? What is the difference between a fable and a fairy tale? How do these stories compare to stories we are told as children?

Question 11

Identify the objectives of The Indian Act of 1876.

Question 12

Summarize the main points of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Question 13

Identify a social welfare issue in the current media pertaining to Aboriginal needs.

Question 14

Identify social and health indicators of concern to Aboriginal peoples.

Question 15

Define the terms Aboriginal peoples, Inuit and Métis.

Question 16

What was the Oka crisis?

Question 17

The Delgamuukw decision

A) Set down the basis for decision-making regarding traditional lands
B) Gave Aboriginal people less power and control in issues of Aboriginal lands and entitlements
C) Requires other parties to take the inherent rights of Aboriginal peoples into account in decisions that affect their lives
D) All of the above
E) A and C above

Question 18

The Penner Report

A) Supported the special and distinct status for Indian First Nations
B) Did not support the special and distinct status for Indian First Nations
C) Recommended new legislation
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above

Question 19

In Citizens Plus the chiefs of Alberta

A) Asserted their collective cultural rights
B) Considered themselves legally and culturally the same as Euro-Canadians
C) Agreed to abandon their traditions and social practices
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above

Question 20

The most comprehensive study of Aboriginal peoples is

A) RCAP
B) NAFTA
C) OSAP
D) SSHRC
E) CAA

Question 21

Aboriginal women face unique issues because

A) The Indian Act removed Native women from their roles as decision-makers and teachers
B) Until 1985 Aboriginal women who married non-Indians kept their Aboriginal status
C) Egalitarian relationships around roles and relationships were part of traditional Aboriginal societies, and were supported by the Indian Act
D) All of the above
E) A and C above

Question 22

As part of ongoing decolonization

A) Aboriginal peoples are reclaiming and reaffirming their own history, stories and traditional beliefs
B) Aboriginal peoples are declaring their right to educate their own people
C) Aboriginal peoples are seeking control of their health and social services
D) Aboriginal peoples are involved in the education of their own professionals
E) All of the above

Question 23

The Indian Act

A) Was first created in 1876 and gave the Canadian government complete control over the cultural, social, economic and political activities of those persons defined in the Act as Indian
B) Was a very progressive piece of legislation for its time
C) Ensured the preservation of Aboriginal language and culture
D) Preserved traditional Aboriginal family values
E) All of the above

Question 24

The Royal Proclamation of 1763

A) Was the first significant legislation in Canada that concerned Aboriginal peoples
B) Re-established friendly relationships with some Aboriginal groups who had been dissatisfied with their earlier contacts with Euro-Christian missionaries
C) Ensured Aboriginal control of their own lands
D) All of the above
E) A and C above

Question 25

The Gradual Civilization Act of 1857

A) Proposed moving smaller groups of Aboriginal peoples onto reserves
B) Created a serious crisis amongst tribal councils
C) Was widely accepted by Aboriginal peoples
D) A and B above
E) A and C above.

Question 26

Enfranchisement

A) Is a term from the French world franchiser, meaning to cloak
B) Was used to promote assimilation
C) Required that Aboriginal peoples had to prove their readiness to be absorbed into Euro-Canadian society
D) Was established by a rigorous test
E) All of the above

Question 27

The Indian Act evinces a clear example of gender discrimination.

Question 28

In Citizens Plus the chiefs delivered the clear message that they were prepared to assume responsibility for the welfare of their own peoples.

Question 29

Aboriginal peoples were very satisfied with the proposed Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Question 30

The government responded to the Penner Report by advocating for increased powers for First Nations but stated that new powers should be controlled by and subject to approval of, the federal government.

Question 31

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1991) was in part an answer to the Oka crisis.

Question 32

The former Minister of Indian Affairs apologized publicly for the treatment of Aboriginal children in residential schools.

Question 33

The RCAP proposed that the Canadian government return to the original Indian Act of 1876.

Question 34

The Hawthorn Report (1967) revealed the deplorable circumstances in which Canada's Status Indians were living.

Question 35

Trudeau was in favour of special status for Aboriginal peoples.

Question 36

Recent shifts in social work education parallel the development of culturally appropriate social services within rural and urban Aboriginal communities.