Indian Act Vocabulary

7. The Crown, the Senate, and the House of Commons; they created Canadian laws
8. a land for Indigenous people given by the government
9. Indigenous people lost their Indian status by the Indian Act
10. A change or improvement made to laws
11. a ceremony for the structure, culture, and spiritual traditions of First Nations
13. an attempt on getting rid of all previous legal documents that relates to Indigenous people
15. one of the two types of chiefs in First Nations; has power from their ancestry
16. to inform about wrongs done towards Indigenous peoples, their land, and rights
18. rights to access of ancestral lands of resources and other privileges made through treaties
19. an attempt on forcing First Nations people to lose culture and become like Euro-Canadians
20. Canadian government who are responsible for policies and treaty rights of Indigenous people
22. one of the three in the Indigenous people group in Canada who hold reserve lands

1. a legal identity from the Indian Act; referred to as Status Indians
2. government sponsored schools that try to bring Indigenous people into Euro-Canadian culture
3. an annual sacred ceremony performed by First Nations in the Prairies
4. a rule created where Indigenous people have to show a travel document confirmed by an Indian Agent to leave or return to reserves
5. 11 treaties made between the Crown and the First Nations from 1871-1921
6. agreements between the Crown and the Indigenous People
12. national government of Canada; Canadian Cabinet
14. the Canadian government’s representatives on First Nations reserves
17. mixed European and Indigenous descents in Canada (Aboriginal peoples)
21. a group of Indigenous people in the northern regions of Canada