Reconciliation 101

The Indian Act is

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A Canadian federal law that governs matters to do with Indian status, bands and Indian reserves.

A list of laws that let Indigenous people do whatever they want

Which of these were laws within the Indian Act prior to 1951

Forced First Nations children to attend industrial or residential schools

No dancing off reserve

Illegal for First Nations to hire a lawyer without government consent.

All of the above

Indian Agents and the RCMP enforced a pass system, to restrict the movement of First Nations people off reserve, which was not actually legal.

True

False

When First Nations farmers worked together to farm with success the Canadian government made a policy that forbade them to work together.

True

False

What was the purpose of the Canadian Indian Residential School system?

To protect children from their abusive families

Remove and isolate children from their families, community and culture to assimilate them into the dominant (settler) society.

To teach them skills they could not learn anywhere else

All of the above

In Canadian Indian Residential schools children were:

Forbidden to speak their first language

Used in experiments such as withholding nutrition to see the effects

Taught by under qualified staff

All of the above

The effects of the removal and abuse of thousands of Indigenous children in the Canadian Indian Residential school system has nothing to do with the current health of Indigenous people today.

True

False

The current Wet’suwet’en issue in B.C. is:

Complicated and nuanced

A waste of time, get rid of the protesters

About the environment

Unceded Territory means

Nothing has been planted there

Those lands never signed away through a treaty or conquered by war

Only First Nations people can live there

None of the above

Reconciliation is

About paying Indigenous people money

Over and done with

None of my business

An issue that involves every Canadian

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