Inherent Right

NATIVE STUDIES 30

DIRECTIONS:Using the textbook chapter 1 (pp. 2 – 35) and the glossary in back answer all of the following questions on this paper. Out of 52 marks.

  1. MATCHING (7 Marks) Write the letter of the word/phrase beside the correct definition

  1. Indigenous peoples
  2. Colonization
  3. Human rights
  4. Racism
  5. Aboriginal rights
  6. Collective rights
  7. Individual rights
  8. Inherent rights
  9. Natural laws
  10. Consensus
  11. Confederacy
  12. Imperialism
  13. Common law
  14. Paternalistic

______Privileges or powers accorded to Aboriginal peoples due to their original or longstanding use and occupancy of the land.

______A policy or practice of governing a group, in a way that a stereotypical father might deal with children, often with an element of charity and condescension.

______A belief in the inferiority of a group of people solely because of their race, skin colour, ancestry or national or ethnic origin.

______The original inhabitants of the land or their descendants.

______One country taking political and economic control of another country and attempting to change the existing culture.

______A legal system which is based on traditions and legal precedent.

______Privileges or powers regarded as fundamentally or inherently belonging to all persons.

______Privileges or powers that belong to an individual.

______Privileges or powers that belong to a group of people.

______Privileges or powers in existence prior to Canada becoming a nation and outside of Canada’s Constitution or any other government or legal authority.

______Systems governing how the natural world operates that can be learned through observation and experience.

______The policy of building and maintaining colonies over a wide geographic area

______A collectively held opinion

______A formal alliance of nations, states, organizations or individuals

  1. TRUE OR FALSE (8 Marks) Determine if each statement is true or false and then write that on the line at the end of the statement.
  2. The end of WW II saw a great deal of change for Indigenous people in Canada and the US as well as the rest of the world. ______
  3. For most Aboriginal leaders self government means separation from Canada. ______
  4. First Nations would often assert control over traditional territory. ______
  5. The Confederacy of Five Nations voted on every decision and dissenting minorities were honor bound to follow the decision. ______
  6. Europe was doing the world a favour by spreading its superiority far and wide. ______
  7. Europe and the Catholic Church saw colonies as a chance to do God’s work. ______
  8. First Nations lost power with the Europeans due to the decline in the fur trade and loss of population due to diseases. ______
  9. First Nations viewed the gift giving as an important part of the sale of their land. ______
  10. Treaty 8 was negotiated to gain access to a discovery of oil.
  11. The Canadian government negotiated treaties because it didn’t want to risk its military against the First Nations. ______
  12. The interpreters at treaty negotiations were able to clearly explain all of the issues to the First Nations. ______
  13. Thanks to treaties First Nations hunting and fishing rights on traditional lands are unrestricted in Canada. ______
  14. First Nations learned from previous negotiations to get better deals in later numbered treaties. ______
  15. Government negotiators were solely interested in gaining access to land as quickly and cheaply as possible. ______
  16. The Canadian government was unable to get accurate counts need to allocate reserves and payments due to people moving around. ______
  17. The Canadian government often wouldn’t allocate reserves to First Nations until businesses demanded access to land. ______
  18. FILL IN THE BLANK (25 Marks) Fill in the blank with the proper word or phrase needed to make the statement complete and true.
  1. A ______is either a group of people of who share a common kinship, culture and history or it is a group of people occupying a particular territory with a common government.
  2. ______have their languages originating in other places, while ______have their language here in Canada.
  3. During ______differences in languages, cultures and social traditions were enormous.
  4. ______is where contemporary Aboriginal political renewal is in Canada.
  5. During ______both sides saw the other as separate, distinct and independent.
  6. ______began with treaties and the Royal Proclamation of 1763.
  7. ______was created with the goal of improving the situation of indigenous peoples worldwide.
  8. European nations felt justified in their policy of colonization due to their belief that ______were superior.
  9. ______ended, for the most part, the idea of European superiority.
  10. ______inspired First Nations in the US and Canada to demand their rights.
  11. Many people see the 1960s as the beginning of the Aboriginal rights movement but the Metis demanded rights earlier at ______or even during the ______and the ______have declared independence of Canada and the US since the late 1700s.
  12. One of many differences between the two groups is the ______belief in individual rights as opposed to the ______belief in collective rights.
  13. The purpose of ______is to ensure a balance between various individual self interests.
  14. The idea of ______deals with issues of education, government and economics and came about because many people feared aboriginals separating from Canada.
  15. Generally speaking First Nations’ worldviews are ______and have lead to economic practices of ______and to political practices such as ______.
  16. Most First Nations have traditional practices of ______in the affairs of other nations and if conflict did occur it was normally resolved through ______.
  17. Treaties were used to ______, ______and ______.
  18. Early First Nation and European treaties reflected the goals of ______, ______, and ______between sovereign nations and the land.
  19. The ______became the founding constitution for North America’s first federal democracy.
  20. The ______treaty is most famous for being the standard for all future treaties between the Haudenosaunee and Europeans.
  21. Simply put colonies were to contribute ______and ______to the Imperial / European nation.
  22. According to ______people who get ahead in society are the most fit and deserving and inequality is a natural condition of life.
  23. Different cultures have and can co-exist together however problems emerge when one culture sees itself as ______to the other.
  24. According to British common law First Nations held ______a fact recognized by the Royal Proclamation of 1763.
  25. The British in 1760 viewed gift giving as ______, while the First Nations viewed it as ______.
  26. In addition the ending gift giving ______and ______led to Pontiac’s uprising of 1763.
  27. One reason that the Royal Proclamation is significant is that it used the phrase ______supporting claims of First Nations to be sovereign nations.
  28. The numbered treaties mark a shift in Canada away from the ______and more towards ______.
  29. A significant issue with the treaties is that the Canadian government viewed them as ______while First Nations saw them as ______.
  30. Another issue with treaties was that First Nations saw them as ______while the Canadian government saw them as ______.
  31. Treaty Six is considered of importance because First Nations won two concessions ______and ______.
  32. Treaty Eight is unique in that the government did not ______.
  1. SHORT ANSWER (12 Marks)

Answer the following questions after you read the Dene Declaration on page 2.

  1. What groups of people do the Dene compare to themselves to and why? (2 marks)

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  1. Explain what the term Fourth World means. (1 mark)

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Answer the following questions after you have read the chapter.

  1. How has colonialism affected the rights of Aboriginal peoples in Canada? (3 marks)

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  1. Looking at the three declarations by three different First Nations, what rights are described? (3 marks)

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  1. Look at Gerald McMaster’s painting Trick or Treaty on page 32. What is Mr. McMaster’s opinion on treaties? What in the painting gives you this opinion? (3 marks)

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