Exam 12: Indigenous Families

Land that was non-privatized pre-contact became the corporate property of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670, and subsequently land title was transferred in the creation of the province of Manitoba in 1870.

Under the Indian Act, "________" meant the loss of Indian status. Indians were compelled to give up their Indian status and lose their treaty rights to become enfranchised as Canadian citizens.

The residential schools system in Canada, in removing children from their families, not only denied Indigenous children their family structures, but also disavowed Indigenous traditional parenting practices. Short

The Indian Act was passed in ________, nine years after Confederation.

Despite some changes to provincial child welfare practices with respect to Aboriginal peoples, First Nations children are still ten times more likely to be in the child welfare system as compared to non-Indigenous children.

All residential school survivors received ________ for having to attend a residential school and $3,000 in addition for every year attended.

The term "Haudenosaunee" refers to the people of the Six Nations or in other words, "people of the _______"

The first federally run residential school was the Mohawk Institute in the province of ________ in 1831. The last federally run school in the province of _______ closed its doors in 1996.

"_______" are people who consider themselves Indians or members of a First Nation but who are not recognized by the federal government as Indians under the Indian Act.

Most European traders (mostly Englishmen) during the fur trade era, working in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, were drawn into the kinship circles of Indigenous communities.

According to the Indian Act of 1867, the term "________" refers to "any tract or tracts of land set apart by treaty or otherwise for the use or benefit of, or granted to a particular band of Indians, of which the legal titles resides with the Crown."

Different bans and limitations associated with the Indian Act were lifted throughout the years. Discuss.