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Grade 8 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 4

Wabanaki Governance & Empowerment

Self-government, treaties and reconciliation.

What your child practises

Practises how Wabanaki governance empowered Wabanaki Peoples and the effects of contact and colonization on that empowerment. The content is light, in the present tense, and needs review by Wabanaki partners. It follows the Grade 8 social studies skill descriptors on power and governance and on reconciliation in the New Brunswick curriculum.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Civics: Power and Governance, Wabanaki: Reconciliation · how Wabanaki governance empowered Wabanaki Peoples, and the impact of contact and colonization on that empowerment

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    How can we show respect when learning about difficult history?

    • laugh about it
    • avoid the facts
    • listen carefully, use accurate words and care for others’ feelings
    • blame children

  2. Question 2

    Why is empowerment important for Wabanaki communities?

    • It lets others decide for them
    • It has no value
    • It lets people shape their own futures
    • It ends their culture

  3. Question 3

    Why are treaties still important today?

    • They have expired
    • They are only for museums
    • They are agreements that still need to be respected
    • They are only stories

  4. Question 4

    Which is a way you can support reconciliation?

    • avoid learning
    • make jokes about it
    • ignore it
    • learn the true history, listen to Indigenous voices and act with respect

  5. Question 5

    A Call to Action is…

    • a weather warning
    • a recommendation for steps governments and others can take toward reconciliation
    • a kind of dance
    • a school bell

  6. Question 6

    When did the last federally run residential school close?

    • 1936
    • 2016
    • 1996
    • 1896

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