policies of extermination and assimilation

Question 1

what are the different faces of elimination?

Answer 1

1. extermination and slavery
2. insulation
3. amalgamation/ assimilation

Question 2

why was European intervention needed? (according to Europeans)

Answer 2

White Man’s Burden ->
Vanshing race, either you assimilate or you dissapear

Question 3

what was supposed to come out of residential schools?

Answer 3

1. Indigenous peoples beome part of economy from learning “industrial skills”
2. political assimilation
3. cultural and spiritual change
   -> no longer have to deal with Indian Act or the “Indian Problem”

Question 4

what is the 60’s scoop?

Answer 4

after residential schools diminished in the 50s, children were taken from their families and given to settler families because of “poor living standards”

Question 5

policies of settlement and relocation?

Answer 5

from nomadic to sedimentary life either by
- giving farming tools through treaties
- relocating Inuit families (to facilitate delivery service and to claim sovereignty over the Arctic)

Question 6

policies that had nothing to do with civilization?

Answer 6

1. forced sterilization of women
2. testing vitamins on residential school students

Question 7

royal proclamation

Answer 7

Crown claimed lands of North America to be under soverignty, protection and dominion

Question 8

canadian constitution

Answer 8

• responsibilities of Indian Affairs transferred to colonies
• aboriginal and treaty rights recognized