Exam 12: Indigenous Families

Describe the experiences of children who attended residential schools.

Métis people are of mixed First Nations and ________ ancestry who identify themselves as distinct communities.

Indigenous women were validated by European traders for their vast knowledge of fur trading territories, yet were simultaneously denied authority over these lands by the Hudson's Bay Company.

Idle No More was a national social movement of Indigenous peoples across Canada that came together in 2000 and 2001.

For Indigenous nations, and specifically the Haudenosaunee, the reproducing of the nation was not only physiological but also political.

The treaty process was meant to achieve certain goals for the imperial government. These goals included _______

Anderson (2000) equates childbirth to a form of spiritual enlightenment.

During the era of the Millennium Scoop, Indigenous children in the child welfare system are, in the majority of cases, apprehended due to issues of neglect.

During the Victorian era, Europeans promoted the safeguarding of men's roles in the public sphere of law-making, politics, industry, and ultimately the shaping of national power.

Describe gender roles and families with regard to the private and public spheres.

What was the Millennium Scoop?

The first federally run residential school was the Cree Institute in Battleford, Saskatchewan in 1865.

Smith-Rosenburg (1999) describes the female of the Georgian era as more spiritual, less intellectual, and closer to the divine.

The Oka Crisis of 1990 and the Meech Lake Accord in 1987 highlighted historical wrongs and jurisdictional problems that impacted Indigenous peoples and their rights.

The term "_______" is defined as the immediate collective that individuals affect with their own contributions.

Aboriginal policy in Canada has largely been formed with _______ objectives towards the absorption of Indigenous peoples into the greater body politic.

When an Indigenous woman was disenfranchised as an Indian under the Indian Act, she was no longer able to carry out certain functions or tasks. Explain.

Discuss the differences between the spiritual enlightenment of those who go through childbirth compared to those women who do not have children.

Despite comprising just 2 per cent of the child population in Canada, Indigenous children represent 78 per cent of the children in care nationally.

Settling the west was done through treaty agreements with Indigenous nations. The idea was to pay Indigenous nations for massive acreages of land in exchange for specific benefits and the creation of reserves to which Indigenous peoples would be restricted.