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Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 8

Indigenous Peoples & Canada

Treaties, laws and reconciliation

What your child practises

Treaties and unceded land in BC, the Indian Act, residential schools and the potlatch ban, and the ongoing work of reconciliation. This unit describes hard history factually, without graphic detail; consider talking it through together.

NWT Curriculum learning standard: Indigenous peoples and colonial policies: treaties, the Indian Act, residential schools and reconciliation

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

    What is Aboriginal title?

    • A type of treaty money
    • A chief's nickname
    • The legal recognition of an Indigenous nation's rights to its traditional land
    • A school degree

  2. Question 2

    What does “Inuit” mean in Inuktitut?

    • the travellers
    • the people
    • the northern lights
    • the hunters

  3. Question 3

    What was the Indian Act (1876)?

    • A treaty between nations
    • A school curriculum
    • A trade deal
    • A federal law giving the government control over many aspects of First Nations peoples' lives

  4. Question 4

    When did the last federally run residential school close?

    • 1950
    • 1876
    • 1996
    • 1920

  5. Question 5

    The potlatch is a ceremony of many Northwest Coast Nations. What happened to it in 1885?

    • It became the national festival
    • It was copied by settlers
    • Canada banned it, and the ban remained until 1951.
    • It was never banned

  6. Question 6

    What does it mean that most of BC is “unceded”?

    • Most of the land was never given up by treaty.
    • The land has no owners
    • The land belongs to the Queen by treaty
    • The land is empty

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