Across
- 2. government sponsored schools established to assimilate indigenous children into euro-canadian culture
- 7. a series of 11 treaties made by the crown and indigenous people
- 9. an act created to force first nations to loose their culture and become like Euro-Canadians
- 12. ceremony used by certain indigenous groups
- 14. a legal identity defined by the indian act that only applies to some indigenous people in canada
- 16. rights that apply to indigenous people
- 18. leaders who acquire power through desent
- 19. this bill fully removed all remain enfranchisement classes
- 21. people of mixed European and indigenous ancestry
Down
- 1. the national government of canada centred in Ottawa
- 3. claims made by governments on indigenous lands
- 4. the institutions that create Canada's laws
- 5. land set aside by the federal government for use by the indigenous people
- 6. annual sacred ceremony performed by indigenous from the prairies
- 8. one of three groupings of indigenous people in canada
- 10. a government paper that was made to try and abolish previous indian acts and treaties
- 11. most common legal process in which indigenous peoples lost their indian status
- 12. process in which indigenous people had to present a travel document to an indian agent in order to leave a reserve
- 13. agreements recognized between the crown and the people
- 15. the canadians government’s representatives on first nation reserves
- 17. an indigenous people that inhabit the northern regions of canada
- 20. department responsible for indigenous affairs
