Chapter 4 Vocab

Question 1

Affirm

Answer 1

To validate and express commitment to something

Question 2

Collective Identity

Answer 2

The shared identity of a group of people, especially of a common language and culture

Question 3

Collective Rights

Answer 3

Rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canadian society for historical and constitutional reasons.

Question 4

First Nations

Answer 4

The umbrella name for the diverse peoples who have collective rights that are recognized and protected in Canada’s constitution

Question 5

Indian

Answer 5

Word used by Europeans to describe first nations

Question 6

Sovereignity

Answer 6

Independence as a people, with a right to self-government

Question 7

Annuity

Answer 7

An annual payment

Question 8

Reserve

Answer 8

Land for exclusive use of first nations

Question 9

Entrenching

Answer 9

Fixing firmly within

Question 10

Patriate

Answer 10

To ring a country something that belongs to that country

Question 11

Indian Act

Answer 11

Federal Legislation related to the rights and status of first nations people first passed in 1876 and amended several times

Question 12

Ethnocentrinism

Answer 12

Belief that one’s culture is superior to all other cultures

Question 13

Assimilate

Answer 13

Become part of a different cultural group

Question 14

Anglophone

Answer 14

A person whose first language is english

Question 15

Francophone

Answer 15

A person whose first language is french

Question 16

Official language community

Answer 16

One of the groups in Canadian society whose members speak an official language of Canada as their first language

Question 17

Official Language Minority

Answer 17

A group that speaks one of Canada’s official languages and odes not make up the majority population of a province or territory

Question 18

Publicly Funded

Answer 18

Paid for with taxes and provided by government

Question 19

Inherent rights

Answer 19

Rights with origins in fundamental justice

Question 20

Scrip

Answer 20

In Metis history, a document that could be exchanged for land and was offered to the Metis at the time the numbered treaties were negotiated

Question 21

Autonomy

Answer 21

Authority to make decisions