Exam 12: The Social Welfare of Aboriginal Canadians

Which of the following describes the Métis people?

Many Aboriginal groups formed following the presentation of the 1969 White Paper.At that time,and since,five specific groups became collectively known as Canada's National Aboriginal Organizations (NAOs).Please identify those five groups as they are known today.

The first Indian Act provided the federal government with both a framework for administering Aboriginal affairs and a mechanism for controlling the lives of people living on reserves.When was the first Indian Act passed?

In 1991,why did the Government of Canada appoint the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?

Canada's Indian Act was originally intended to promote the colonization of Aboriginal peoples.What does the colonization process refer to?

In what year did the United Nations proclaim the International Year of the World's Indigenous People?

By 2006,what percentage of Aboriginal peoples lived in cities?

Which Canadian prime minister aimed to totally assimilate Aboriginal peoples into the mainstream society?

The Aboriginal Head Start initiative mainly focuses on the needs of which group of Aboriginal peoples?

What finally ended with the amendment of the Indian Act in 1985?

There are fundamental differences between a mainstream approach to helping used in Canada's social welfare system and a traditional approach to helping used in Aboriginal social welfare programs.For each characteristic listed below,indicate which approach it best reflects.Enter MA (mainstream approach)or TA (traditional approach)in the space provided. a)Human disorders are seen as discrete entities._____ b)The concepts of balance and a holistic view form the basis of this approach._____ c)Psychotherapy is a conventional intervention._____ d)This approach is likely to view an individual's personal problems within a historical context._____ e)The concept of healing is central to intervention._____ f)This approach is largely based on the medical model._____

Identify and describe the three distinct groups of Canada's Aboriginal population?

By the turn of the nineteenth century,the Canadian government had assumed a paternal role in Aboriginal affairs.What does this approach reveal about the government's belief about Aboriginal peoples?

In the early 1970s,Canada's Aboriginal peoples organized themselves into several formal groups.Which of the following is the National Aboriginal Organization that primarily represents Aboriginal people living off a reserve?

The term residential school syndrome is used to describe the cluster of symptoms specific to the problems created by Aboriginal residential schools.According to psychiatrist Charles R.Brasfield,which mental health problem is most closely-related to residential school syndrome?