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Indigenous Canada Week 01 Quiz Answers

Q1. The main characteristic of Creation or teaching stories (compared to personal stories) is:

• Creation stories are everyday lived experiences of people
• Creation stories are observations and accounts of places
• Creation stories are spiritual in nature
• Creation stories evolve over time

Q2. Indigenous knowledge can be characterized as follows:

• A study on the past
• Ongoing process of knowing and learning
• A codification of Indigenous knowledge
• Focused on generating new knowledge

Q3.A worldview develops as:

• an imposition from those in power over time in the same geographical area.
• religious and cultural leaders changing the attitudes of everyday people.
• governments impose legislation about how society should function.
• part of a collective experience emerges from a multitude of individual experiences.

Q4. A fundamental difference between Indigenous and Western worldviews is the assumption of:

• whether or not there is an afterlife.
• proper gender roles in the community.
• hierarchy versus interdependence in the natural world.
• humans’ natural intelligence.

Q5. Which Indigenous worldview is embodied by the phrase, “all my relations”?

• Nehiyawak
• Kanien:keha’ka
• Inuit
• Tlingit

Indigenous Canada Week 02 Quiz Answers

Q1.This nation had some of the highest population densities in Canada, with estimates ranging from 20,000 to 33,000 inhabitants:

• Beothuk
• Wyandot (Huron)
• Mi’kmaq
• Innu

Q2.Pre-contact trade was largely for:

• basic necessities
• luxury items
• foreign goods
• metal and metal products

Q3.The Fur Trade has been interpreted by scholars of Indigenous history as:

• Organized slave labour for the benefit of transnational corporations
• A simple system of trading networks
• An ineffective system to collect raw materials
• A partnership between European and Indigenous groups

Q4.What did the Norse explorers call the Indigenous people they encountered?

• Skraelings
• Skrillex
• Montagnais
• Innu

Q5.Which European explorer claimed the land of Newfoundland or Labrador:

• Columbus
• Frobisher
• Caboto
• Eric the Red

Q6.Indigenous peoples would primarily trade furs for:

• textiles (e.g., coats, blankets, socks)
• agriculture supplies (e.g., seeds, machinery)
• metal goods (e.g., needles, cookware, knives)
• wood products (e.g., furniture, carts)

Q7.Which Indigenous nation acted as the most prominent middleman during the early fur trade?

• Inuit
• Wyandot (Huron)
• Anishinaabe
• Nehiyawak

Q8.The NWC’s success was not attributed to:

• Invention of the York boat
• Participation of the Nor’Westers
• Merging with smaller rivals
• Alliance and friendship with Indigenous nations

Q9.The NWC began as:

• An informal group of traders
• Disgruntled employees of the HBC
• The Nehiyawak living along the Hudson Bay looking for trading opportunities
• Métis men seeking to crack open the monopoly of the HBC

Q10.Offspring between French men and Indigenous women in the fur trade were known as:

• Freemen
• Hohe Nakota
• Nor’westers
• Métis

Q11.How did the merger of the HBC and NWC affect First Nations and Métis peoples?

• Without the fierce competition, trading practices become much more elaborate
• The HBC were able to enforce stricter rules and regulations on hunting and trapping
• Allowed Indigenous trappers and hunters to make their own hours
• Transport systems become unwieldy and hard to organize

Q12.The production of pemmican became vital for traders because of its:

• high caloric value
• ease to make
• appealing taste
• low cost

Q13.The people who broke away from the consigns of HBC and NWC were called:

• Rebels
• Freemen or Otipemisiwak
• Turncoats
• Métis

Q14.What kind of economy replaced the fur trade after its demise?

• Lumber industry
• Railway building
• Agriculture
• The collecting of buffalo bone

Indigenous Canada Week 03 Quiz Answers

Q1. The Haudenosaunee understanding of treaties as evidenced by Gusweñta is NOT:1 point

• Peace with a respectful distance
• Non interference
• Adding to our relations
• Travelling side-by-side as equals

Q2. Wampum belts’ primary purpose was to:

• act as monetary currency
• exchange for luxury items
• display wealth
• record important events

Q3. The Gusweñta agreement called for:

• an extensive trade network between the Haudenosaunee and French.
• the Haudenosaunee to cede a portion of their territory to the Dutch.
• mutual respect between the Haudenosaunee and Dutch, as well as non-interference.
• the Dutch to leave Haudenosaunee territory.

Q4. Which law is often used to describe legally binding agreements of treaties?

• The Great Peace of Montreal
• Pre-Colonial Indigenous laws
• The Constitution
• International law

Q5. Pre-colonial Indigenous laws can be characterized as:

• homogenous, informed by commonly-held customs and practices among groups.
• heterogeneous, informed by international customs and practices.
• heterogeneous, informed by local customs and practices
• homogenous, informed by local customs and practices.

Q6. The Great Peace of Montreal was between:

• New France and Indigenous groups of western North America
• the British Crown and Indigenous groups of central and eastern North America
• the British Crown and Indigenous groups of central and western North America
• New France and Indigenous groups of central and eastern North America

Q7. Which Indigenous nations signed the Peace and Friendship Treaties from 1725-1779?

• New France, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy
• Mi’kmaq, Malliseet, Passamaquoddy
• East coast Indigenous Nations and New France
• Cree, Blackfoot, Metis

Q8 The Robinson Treaties in 1850 introduced something new to Indigenous-settler agreements. What was it?

• establishment of residential schools
• provisions for creating reserves
• reclamation of seized land
• recognition for “half-breed” children

Q9. When the Hudson’s Bay Company first established a colony on Vancouver Island they:

• Found little or no furs available
• Worked to establish relationships with the Indigenous people
• Gave little thought to the Indigenous population
• Had a difficult time surviving on the land

Q10. The territories encompassing the numbered treaties includes:

• All the rivers, lakes and lands draining into the Hudson’s Bay area
• All of Canada with the exception of Nunavut and Vancouver Island
• Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec
• Between the lake of the Woods in the east, the Rocky Mountains in the West and the Beaufort Sea to the North

Q11. Modern Day Treaties are also known as:

• Native Claims
• Comprehensive Claims
• Compensatory Agreements
• Numbered Treaties

Q12. This was NOT one of the circumstances leading up to the Northwest Resistance:

• Métis were refused their requested title to their river lots
• Métis wanted similar agricultural assistance
• Métis wanted a nation to nation partnership with the Canadian state
• Métis attacked the transcontinental railway.

Q13. Confederation affected the treaty-making process because:

• The Canadian government sought westward expansion
• Indigenous groups felt entitled to more land.
• The Canadian government felt its borders were secure
• Indigenous groups were insecure about the future of the Fur Trade industry

Q14. When do Treaty Days take place annually:

• Anniversary of signing of each treaties
• Anniversary of signatory chiefs
• Columbus Day
• Canada Day

Q15. What was one of the Indigenous interpretations of Treaty 6:

• Sharing land alongside Europeans
• Legal ownership over all territories
• Joining Treaty 7
• Claiming lands for the sake of the tribe

Q16. What land base did Indian Commissioner Edgar Dewdney exclude from Treaty negotiations:

• The Athabasca watershed
• The Cypress Hills
• The Badlands
• Rupertsland

Q17. Indigenous leaders, such as Big Bear, likely felt they had to sign Treaty 6 because of fears of:

• Forced migration
• Starvation
• Invasion
• Assimilation

Q18. What was the Indigenous interpretation of the spirit of Treaty 6:

• National recognition of ownership over land
• Agreement between sovereign Nations
• Material remuneration
• Agreement to uphold cultural practices

Q19. What were “lands in severalty”:

• Lands on reserve
• 160 acres beyond the limits of the reserve
• 160 acres per section
• 160 acres beyond the limits of the township

Q20. The military commander of the Northwest Resistance was:

• Big Bear
• Louis Riel
• Duncan Campbell Scott
• Gabriel Dumont

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