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- 4. - Process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. In 1884, the government banned potlatches.
- 7. - a highly regulated event. It validates status, rank and established claims to names, powers and privileges.
- 8. - 8-day standoff between Mohawk protesters, police, and army. The crisis made more Canadians aware of Aboriginal rights.
- 9. - The Truth Commission of Canada hopes to guide and inspire First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and Canadians in a process of truth and healing leading towards renewed relationships based on mutual understanding and respect.
- 13. - One of the most recognized aboriginal people in Canada
- 14. - In the 1870’s, the Government of Canada partnered with Anglican, Catholic, United, and Presbyterians churches to establish and operate boarding and ... for Aboriginal (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) children.
- 15. - document that set out guidelines for European settlement of Aboriginal territories. Initially issued to officially claim British territory in North America after Britain won the Seven Years War.
- 17. - Deal with the unfinished business of treaty-making in Canada. These claims generally arise in areas of Canada where Aboriginal land rights have not been dealt with by treaty or through other legal means.
- 20. - Ongoing protest movement, founded in December 2012 by four women: three First Nations women and one non-Native ally. It is a grassroots movement among the Aboriginal peoples in Canada comprising the First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and their non-Aboriginal supporters in Canada, and to a lesser extent, internationally.
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- 1. (NIB) - Assembly of First Nations represented by their chiefs. The aims of the organization are to protect and advance the aboriginal and treaty rights and interests of First Nations in Canada.
- 2. - Federal policy divided Aboriginal legal claims into two broad categories: comprehensive (known as modern treaties); and specific, which make claims based on pre-existing treaties or agreements.
- 3. - Formal structure through which Aboriginal communities may control the administration of their people, land, resources and related programs and policies, through agreements with federal and provincial governments.
- 5. - Leader of an Aboriginal clan.
- 6. - Canadian policy proposal made by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1969. This policy would abolish the Indian Act and dismantle the established legal relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the state of Canada in favour of equality.
- 10. - Canadian statute that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves.
- 11. - recognized agreements between the Crown and Aboriginal peoples.
- 12. - Figures made of stone. They are among the most important objects created by the INUIT, who were the first people to inhabit portions of Alaska, Arctic Canada and Greenland.
- 16. - Intention was to be a just and equitable settlement of the nisga'a land. To them, treaties were a legal framework for a new society.
- 18. - The Indian Department has been transformed over time into the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, managing not only Canada's relationship with First Nations, the Inuit and Métis, but also all of Canada's North.
- 19. - Courts have sought to define the nature of the legal interest in the land of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples for many years.