CANS Exam Study Guide2 with Accurate
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settler ideas - ANSWER false ideas that indigenous land practices, including agriculture,
were primitive at best and land underutilized, that indigenous people have no real
governments or laws, that many indigenous customs, rituals, ceremonies often
"uncivilized" and "barbaric"
shaping land in canada - ANSWER myths created to justify settler colonialism, policies
created to remove indigenous peoples from the land and replace them with settler
societies
Truth and Reconcilliation Commission - ANSWER materializes when a government seeks
to uncover past abuses and trauma in order to confront issues, usually begins with an
acknowledgement of guilt and apology but deeds and actions must follow for findings to
be meaningful
TRC in canada - ANSWER 2008-2015, established as part of a lengthier process that grew
out of the indian residential schools settlement agreement (IRSSA)
treaties with first nations - ANSWER 1871-1877: seven treaties were concluded with
indigenous peoples living east of the rockies, treaties established reserves where first
nations could farm, and promised implements, seed, and training, treaties recognized
traditional hunting and fishing rights
the indian act (1876) - ANSWER premise that first nations remained incapable of
integrating into "civilized" society and therefore needed supervision in their economic,
political, and social activities, act introduced processes to replace traditional political
structures with elected band chiefs and councils, and subjected all reserve activities to
the supervision of white bureaucracies, made gender distinctions; indigenous women
who married non-status men lost their status, and did their children, later revisions also
, denied status indians the right to perform traditional religious practices or to drink
alcohol
truth and reconcilliation of canada group - ANSWER calls to action- creates systems to
prevent abuses from happening again, acknowledges the full history of the residential
school system
colonization - ANSWER the action or process of settling among and establishing control
over the indigenous people of the area
colonialism - ANSWER the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control
over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically
settler colonialism - ANSWER distinct type of colonialism that functions through the
replacement of indigenous populations with an invasive settler society that, over time,
develops a distinctive identity and sovereignty
nation state - ANSWER a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively
homogenous in factors such as language or common descent (commonality of people)
imperialism - ANSWER a policy of extending a country's power and influence through
diplomacy or military force, an unequal human and territorial relationship usually in the
form of an empire
canadian imperialism - ANSWER an unequal human and territorial relationship based on
ideas of superiority and practices of dominance, and involving the extension of authority
and control of one state or people over another
liberal state - ANSWER premised on the rights of the individual, including private
property rights, depends upon a delineation between the private and public sphere,
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settler ideas - ANSWER false ideas that indigenous land practices, including agriculture,
were primitive at best and land underutilized, that indigenous people have no real
governments or laws, that many indigenous customs, rituals, ceremonies often
"uncivilized" and "barbaric"
shaping land in canada - ANSWER myths created to justify settler colonialism, policies
created to remove indigenous peoples from the land and replace them with settler
societies
Truth and Reconcilliation Commission - ANSWER materializes when a government seeks
to uncover past abuses and trauma in order to confront issues, usually begins with an
acknowledgement of guilt and apology but deeds and actions must follow for findings to
be meaningful
TRC in canada - ANSWER 2008-2015, established as part of a lengthier process that grew
out of the indian residential schools settlement agreement (IRSSA)
treaties with first nations - ANSWER 1871-1877: seven treaties were concluded with
indigenous peoples living east of the rockies, treaties established reserves where first
nations could farm, and promised implements, seed, and training, treaties recognized
traditional hunting and fishing rights
the indian act (1876) - ANSWER premise that first nations remained incapable of
integrating into "civilized" society and therefore needed supervision in their economic,
political, and social activities, act introduced processes to replace traditional political
structures with elected band chiefs and councils, and subjected all reserve activities to
the supervision of white bureaucracies, made gender distinctions; indigenous women
who married non-status men lost their status, and did their children, later revisions also
, denied status indians the right to perform traditional religious practices or to drink
alcohol
truth and reconcilliation of canada group - ANSWER calls to action- creates systems to
prevent abuses from happening again, acknowledges the full history of the residential
school system
colonization - ANSWER the action or process of settling among and establishing control
over the indigenous people of the area
colonialism - ANSWER the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control
over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically
settler colonialism - ANSWER distinct type of colonialism that functions through the
replacement of indigenous populations with an invasive settler society that, over time,
develops a distinctive identity and sovereignty
nation state - ANSWER a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively
homogenous in factors such as language or common descent (commonality of people)
imperialism - ANSWER a policy of extending a country's power and influence through
diplomacy or military force, an unequal human and territorial relationship usually in the
form of an empire
canadian imperialism - ANSWER an unequal human and territorial relationship based on
ideas of superiority and practices of dominance, and involving the extension of authority
and control of one state or people over another
liberal state - ANSWER premised on the rights of the individual, including private
property rights, depends upon a delineation between the private and public sphere,
