UNIT ONE - ABORIGINAL AND TREATY RIGHTS

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LEGAL DEFINITIONS
ASSIGNMENT 2

The Canadian government, in its wisdom after signing treaties with First Nations people, set up an administration system referred to as the Indian Act. The Indian Act established who was capable of having access to Treaty Rights. Out of the Indian Act come a number of legal definitions describing people who would have access to Treaty Rights and those who would not.

O.B. Buell National Archives of Canada C-1873

These sites will help you do the following activities.

• Who are Indian , Metis and Inuit Peoples?
• Status, NonStatus,and Metis People
• Aboriginal Peoples of Saskatchewan
• Statistics Canada: Population by Aboriginal group, 1996 -2006 Census
• Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada - Most Often Asked Questions
• Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada - Kids' Stop - Languages
• Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development - Aboriginal Place Names
• North American Pre-Contact Culture Areas
• Aboriginal People in each Province
• Saskatoon Powwow
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ACTIVITIES

1. The following are a number of legal distinctions used to describe First Nations People in Canada today. Give a complete legal definition for each:
a) Status/ Registered
b) Non Status
c) Treaty
d) Inuit
e) Metis

2 a) List six First Nations found in Saskatchewan today.
b) List two historical pieces of information for each of the traditional nations found in Saskatchewan.

3. Explain in your own words why Metis people and Non-status people might be angry with the Federal Government regarding assess to treaties.

4. Look at the Stats Canada page for Population in each Province.
a)In what provinces would you find the four highest aboriginal populations ?

5. When looking at the chart dealing with the numbers of people living on and of reserve, what two inferences can you make about the population shifts?

6. Using the map of Traditional Pre- Contact culture, in what modern day Provinces and Territories would you find the following groupings:(Just look at the map)
a) The North West People
b) The Plateau People
c) The Plains Nations
d) Sub Arctic
e) The North Eastern Woodlands
f) The Great Lakes

7. Go to the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Kids Stop web site and learn how to say four words in the Plains Cree language.

8 a) Click here for a map of Canada to place all of the provinces and territories and their capitals in the correct location.
b) Click here to place 10 cities whose names have a First Nations origin on another map of Canada.
c) In your own words briefly explain the origin of these 10 cities.

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