Chapter 8 Vocabulary

A process by which culture or individual is absorbed into a more dominant culture because of its overwhelming influence.

• integration

• assimilation

• accomodation

• integration

A Francophone descendent of the settlers of New France living anywhere in North America

• Metis

• Nor'Westers

• Canadien

• habitant

Betrayal of one's country

• refugee

• strike

• suffrage

• treason

A set of characteristics and values that describes the essence of a person or group.

• identity

• policy

• Multiculturalism

• world view

Movement of people within a country

• refugee

• revolution

• push factor

• migration

A vast territory named after Prince Rupert, the first head of the Hudson's Bay Company, consisting of most of what is now Western and Northern Canada.

• Rupert's Land

• Rupert's Confederacy

• Rupert's Territory

• Rupert's Fortress

Aboriginal Peoples of Canada who are not Metis or Inuit; groups of the same.

• Iroquois Confederacy

• First Nations

• Reformers

• Nor'Westers

A law that was passed in July 1870 in response to the Metis Bill of Rights.

• Immigration Act

• Pemmican Proclamation

• Metis Provisional Government

• Manitoba Act

A boat used by the Meits to transport furs

• York Boat

• stockade

• canoe

• Metis ship

The way in which people meet their basic needs, such as food, clothing and shelter

• culture

• free trade

• reserves

• economy