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Aboriginal people comprise what percentage of people in Canada? |
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Define Aboriginal Peoples
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| collective term for original inhabitants of Canada; Includes first nation, Inuit and metis. |
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| Include culturally, linguistically, and geographically diverse groups of people, some examples are Cree, Dene, and Mi’kmaq peoples. |
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legal context of being either Status or non-Status.
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| Registered as Indians according to the Indian Act. |
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| Aboriginal peoples of Canada “that have traditionally used and occupied, and currently use and occupy, the lands and waters” ranging from the Yukon and NWT to Northern Québec and Labrador. |
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| What is the date that Nunavut was created? |
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| Define the origins of Metis |
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Origin traced back to the Red River in the early 1800s. Formed a unique language and culture that was a unique blend of Indian and European cultures. |
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| How many aboriginal people were on this continent when Europeans arrived? |
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| Between 500,000 and 2million |
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| How many aboriginal languages were spoken, and how many language groups came from this? |
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Approximately 50 aboriginal languages, which made up 11 main language groups.
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| How did the relationship between Aboriginal people and Eurpoeans evolve? |
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| Initially friendly, later military alliances and finally as irrelevant or as an obstacle to imperial domination. |
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| Forced political domination of one nation over another including administrative, economic, and cultural control. |
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| A primary factor (extending from the colonial legacy) contibuting to the high rates of poverty among Aboriginal people is unemployment. What is the the percentage of unemployment rate among aboriginal people? |
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| What is the percentage of Aboriginal households living below the low income cut off (LICO)? |
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| True or False; Aboriginal people are twice as likely to be impirsoned in the first palcea nd are more likely to recieve af ull prison sentance than non aboriginal people. |
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| The rate of sucide and suicide attempts is how many more times higher among aboriginal peoples? |
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| three to four times higher, especialy among those 15-20 years old than the rest of Canadians. |
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| According to the 2006 census what percentage of aboriginal ppl lived in metropolitan areas in Canada? |
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| 53%, mostly in Winnipeg (11%) |
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| According to K. Lee, of the total URBAN aboriginal population what percentage lives below the LICO? As compared to what percentage of non-aboriginal ppl? |
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over 50% of urban aboriginal ppl live below the LICO.
just over 20% of the non aboriginal population below the LICO. |
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| in regards to lone parent families, what percentage live below the LICO? |
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77%
The poorest urban ab. population live in...
Saskatoon (63.7%)
Regina (62.2%)
Winnipeg (60.5%)
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| True or false: The aboriginal population continues to grow as the non-aboriginal population declines. |
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| What year did the UN adopt the declaration on the rights of indigenous ppls which establishes minimum standards for the survival, dignity, well being, protection from discrimination, and rights of the worlds indigenous ppls? |
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| What four countries opposed the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous ppls? |
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Canada (boooo!)
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Australia
New Zealand |
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| What was the intentin of the land-cession treaties now that Indians were not longer militaryily useful (wording is direct from text!) |
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| To concenrate Indians in settled areas, or reserves; to subject them to as much proselytization, schooling, and instruction in agriculture as 'circumstances' made necessary. |
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| What legal instrument was used to implement the land cession treaties? |
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What is the title of the person who administered the Act in aborigional communities?
What were their responsiblities? |
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An Indian Agent.
Responsibilities; displace tradition aboriginalleaders so as to institue a new way of living consistent with the intentions of the Canadian Government at the time. Had extraordinary administrative and discretionary powers. Clause 25 ensured his power. |
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| In order for an Indian to acquire full Canadian citizenship what did they have to relingquish? |
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| Ties to their community, give up their culture and traditions and any rights to land. |
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| Absorbing of one cultural group into another. |
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| What year did First Nations gain the right to vote in federal elections? |
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| What year did Canada get its first native senator? |
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| 1958, appointed by Prime Minister John Diefebaker. |
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| The federal government established the Department of Idian Affairs for what purpose? |
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| For the purpose of regulating and conrolling aboriginal movement and ways of living. |
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| What was the purpose of the scrip system? |
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| The scrip system entitled the bearer of the scrip certificate to either land or money; in exchange, the person who took scrip gave up all further claims to land. This pertained only to the Metis population. |
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| Did any Inuit sign treaties? |
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| No, no inuit signed under the indian act. However, there were no lands set aside for inuit, even though with the extensive mineral and oil exploration they were moved a lot. |
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| What is the disk list system? |
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| A system put in place by the governement as they would not or could not acknowledge Inuktitut names, instead they numbered a disk to each Inuk. By the 1960s it was obvious the disk list was a failure . |
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| Define residential system |
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| System- established in the mid 1800s by Indian Affairs in conjuction with several Christian churches through which aboriginal children were removed from their communities and laced in residential schools. |
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| In 2007 what historic settlement happened? |
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| In 2007 an out of court settlement between the Government of Canada, the Churches and the Aboriginal ppls of Canada was established. The Indian Residential Schools settlement Agreement IS THE LARGEST CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT IN CANADIAN HISTORY. |
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| What historic event happened in 2008 in regards to government and aboriginal ppl |
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| the governement formally apologized to aboriginal ppls for the residential school system. |
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