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First Nations and Canada

Terms in this set (14)

Meech Lake Accord
Attempt by the Federal government to ensure that Québec's failure would accept the patriation package in 1981. Elijah Harper did not want to sign this treaty because it was not recognizing the First Nations status.
White Paper
Pierre Trudeau. Proposed to eliminate treaties, the Indian Act and and everything else keeping Inuit and First Nations people distinct.
National Indian Brotherhood
(NIB) represents Status Indians. Formed as a reaction to the White Paper.
Native Council of Canada
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) founded in 1971 as the Native Council of Canada, is a Canadian aboriginal organization, that represents Aboriginal Peoples (First Nations and Métis) who live off Indian reserves, either in urban and rural areas across Canada.[1]
Assembly of First Nations
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is a body of First Nations leaders in Canada. The aims of the organization are to protect the rights, treaty obligations, ceremonies, and claims of citizens of the First Nations in Canada.
Specific Land Claims
based on existing treaties
Comprehensive Land Claims
• Resolve claims to Aboriginal title in areas that have not been addressed by treaty or other legal means (based on traditional use)
Ipperwash
The Ipperwash Crisis was an Indigenous land dispute that took place in Ipperwash Provincial Park, Ontario in 1995. Several members of the Stoney Point Ojibway band occupied the park in order to assert their claim to nearby land which had been expropriated from them during World War II. During a violent confrontation, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) killed protester Dudley George. He was the only aboriginal killed in 20th century land claims protests.
Gustafsen Lake
in BC; aboriginal people re-occupied land that they claimed was sacred ground
Oka
Originally a native camp in Qubec. An Indian reserve Kanesatake is nearby. The province had built part of a golf course on this land.
self-government for Aboriginals
responsible for policing, health care, education and still have access to institutions and benefits provided by federal government
Nunavat
Canadian province that was set aside especially for the indigenous people. Given right to self-government over natural resources, education and justice systems.
Nisga'a Treaty
The 2000 treaty signed by the Nisga'a First Nation and the governments of Canada and BC that incorporated a land claim settlement and powers of self-government; it is considered the first modern-day Aboriginal treaty.
Statement of Reconciliation
issued by the federal government in 1998; the Canadian Government recognized that policies which sought to assimilate aboriginal peoples were not conducive to building a strong country
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