Indigenous Voices: Indigenous Education Quiz Indigenous Voices: Indigenous Education Quiz Question Title * 1. Who are the three groups of peoples classified as Aboriginals in the Canadian Constitution? Cree, Michif, and Inuk Indian, Metis, and Inuit Dene, Inuit, and Metis OK Question Title * 2. True or False? Education is a treaty right. True False OK Question Title * 3. In which section of the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982 are Aboriginals recognized? Section 31 Section 33 Section 35 Section 38 OK Question Title * 4. Which Treaty is the University of Saskatchewan (main campus) located on? Treaty 4 Treaty 10 Treaty 2 Treaty 8 Treaty 6 OK Question Title * 5. What happened on April 14, 2016 that has drastic effects for Canada as a country? British Columbia signed a Modern-day treaty with the Canadian government Metis and Non-Status are now recognized as Indians under the constitution A new numbered treaty was signed within the prairie provinces OK Question Title * 6. The Indian bands took control of the last remaining residential school in the last few decades. Which school was the last one to close its doors? Gordon Indian Residential School (SK) Williams Lake Indian Residential School (BC) Frobisher Bay Indian Residential School (Nunuvat) Shubenacadie Indian Residential School (Nova Scotia) OK Question Title * 7. The federal government began funding Residential schools as a federal initiative because: The Dominion of Canada had signed treaties with First Nations The Davin Report showed favourable results in the United States To provide education to as many students as possible To provide care and schooling to children when the parents were on the land OK Question Title * 8. With the creation of residential schools, they focused on primary education in an effort to forcefully civilize and Christianize Indian children.Who made this statement? “I want to get rid of the Indian problem . . . our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic.” Prime Minister John A. Macdonald Duncan Campbell Scott Egerton Ryerson Nicholas Flood Davin OK Question Title * 9. True or False? Residential schools were in operation in Canada for 129 years. True False OK Question Title * 10. How many residential schools operated in Canada during the time that the federal government funded them? 124 184 119 139 OK Question Title * 11. Inuit (NWT) residential school experiences reflected those of their southern counterparts in terms of isolation, abuse and religious impacts. The schools were termed as “Day Schools” because the students lived in residences beside the schools.True or False? The federal government began funding these schools in 1877. True False OK Question Title * 12. What were the three eras of education policies for Indigenous peoples? Assimilation, Colonization, Acculturation Segregation, Colonization, Control Control, Assimilation, Acculturation Assimilation through Segregation, Integration, and Indian control of Indian Education OK Question Title * 13. True or False? Beginning in the mid 1880's, Metis were denied a meaningful role in their own education. True False OK Question Title * 14. Metis children, mixture of Indian and White ancestry, were initially turned away from residential schools. However, later on the Canadian government encouraged them to fill the spaces that were left by the Indian children.What impacts did Metis children endure in their residential school experience? Racism from all sides Often outsiders within the student body Made to work harder and longer to “earn” their education All of the above OK Question Title * 15. The 1972 policy paper for Indian Control of Indian Education stated the following: Indian children have the opportunity to learn Indian values The schools will follow the provincial guidelines The residential school legacy will be taught in all schools All of the above OK Question Title * 16. True or False? It wasn’t until the 1950s that education plans were made for both non-Inuit and Inuit children in the Northwest Territories. True False OK Question Title * 17. The estimated number of children that attended residential schools was: 150,000 125,000 100,000 15,000 OK Question Title * 18. The Aboriginal Healing Foundation was established in response to the RCAP. The Foundation was intended to do the following: To record and retain stories of residential school survivors To provide funding to Indigenous communities for healing initiatives To promote the federal government’s plans for working with residential school survivors All of the above OK Question Title * 19. In which year did the Prime Minister of Canada apologize on behalf of the Canadian government for the Residential School era? 1996 1972 2008 2015 OK Question Title * 20. The United Nations Declaration of Indigenous peoples, which Canada is a signatory to, states that…. Education needs to be operated by the federal government of the respective country Indigenous peoples have the right to operate their own education systems as long as they follow a federal curriculum Indigenous people have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages. Indigenous people have the right to establish language immersion programs but only Immersion programs within education institutions OK DONE