Treaties Awareness Quiz

Question 1

Whose traditional territories do we live on? Is it treaty land?

Answer 1

Coast Salish people’s - Hul’qumi’num

Question 2

What are nation-to-nation agreements?

Answer 2

agreements between two sovereign groups

Question 3

How did First Nations make nation-to-nation treaties before European contact?

Answer 3

oral tradition and ceremony and or symbolic objects

Question 4

Where and when were the first treaties signed in British Columbia?

Answer 4

1850 - 1854 Douglas Treaties or the Fort Victoria Treaties

Question 5

About how many years passed between these treaties and the first modern-day treaty in British Columbia?

Answer 5

146 years

Question 6

What Canadian law recognizes and affirms Aboriginal and treaty rights?

Answer 6

section 35 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution 1982

Question 7

How many stages are there in the BC treaty Process?

Answer 7

6

Question 8

The Nisga’s Treaty was the first treaty under the BC Treaty Process - True or Fase?

Answer 8

False. it was negotiated before the official BC process.