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Aboriginal Curriculum Integration Project

Socials

Aboriginal Awareness?

What we don't understand is seemingly complex. Aboriginal issues are considered, by many individuals, complex by nature. Knowledge and awareness, of these issues, will lead to improved understanding.

To evaluate your understanding of Aboriginal issues, following below is a set of multiple choice questions that are intended to test your knowledge of terms used as they relate to Aboriginal people. Please select the correct answer.

1) Aboriginal Peoples are:

A. all indigenous people of Canada.

 B. Indians (Status and Non-status) and Métis.

 C. defined in the Constitution.

 D. all of the above

 

2) Status Indian is:

A. a person defined as an Indian under the Indian Act.

 B. an Aboriginal person of high rank.

 C. a person of Métis ancestry.

 D. none of the above

 

3) Non-Status Indian is:

A. a person who claims Aboriginal ancestry.

 B. A person who doesn't meet the criteria for registration as a Status Indian.

 C. a person who has chosen not to be registrered under the Indian Act.

 D. all of the above

 

4) Band is:

A. a musical group; ie. Red Bone

 B. a body of Indians.

 C. defined in the Indian Act.

 D. B and C only

 

5) First Nation(s):

A. is an Aboriginal governing body organized by a community.

 B. can include Status and Non-status Indians.

 C. can be one band or include several different bands.

 D. can replace the term Band.

 E. all of the above

 

6) Reserve is:

A. defined under Section 2 of the Indian Act.

 B. land set apart by the federal government for the use and benefit of a band.

 C. title to land vested in the Crown.

 D. all of the above

 

7) Métis is:

A. a person who self identifies as a member of a Métis community.

 B. any person with mixed Indian and European heritage.

 C. a person who has some proof of an ancestral connection to the historic Métis community whose collective rights they are exercising.

 D. a person who holds proof of acceptance by the modern Métis community.

 E. only A, C, and D

 

8) A Treaty is:

A. a petition to the United Nations.

 B. an opening offer in the negotiation process.

 C. a 'sweetener' offer added late in the negotiation process.

 D. a formal agreement between governments, or between the Crown and an Aboriginal people or peoples.

 E. none of the above.

 

 

Source: Joseph, Robert P.C. and Cynthia F. Joseph, Working Effectively with Aboriginal Peoples, 2nd Edition, (North Vancouver: Indigenous Corporate Training Inc., 2007)