Across
- 3. 2008–2015 commission that investigated residential schools and issued Calls to Action.
- 6. Modern agreements like the Nisga’a that provide self-government and land rights.
- 7. In the 1950s, Inuit families were forcibly moved to High Arctic settlements to assert sovereignty.
- 8. Treaties signed between 1871–1921 that led to land surrender and reserve creation.
- 12. Replaced traditional leadership with federally imposed governance on reserves in 1951.
- 13. 1985 bill that restored Indian status to women and children who had lost it through marriage.
Down
- 1. Indigenous peoples were confined to designated lands often far from traditional territories.
- 2. Criminalized cultural ceremonies such as the potlatch in 1884.
- 4. 2021 legislation committing Canada to align laws with Indigenous rights.
- 5. Policy that removed children from communities and placed them far from home (1879).
- 9. Created legal control over Indigenous status, land, and governance in 1876.
- 10. Restricted Indigenous peoples from leaving reserves without written permission (1885).
- 11. Granted in 1960, allowing First Nations to participate in federal elections without losing status.