Gr 8 Assimilation Unit quiz

Indian Agents were

• People who enforced rules on Reserves

• People who gave the pass to Indigenous people when they wanted to leave the reserve

• People who used the laws to force Indigenous kids to go to Residential school

• All of these

What was the Indian Pass System

• It allowed Indigenous people to be enfranchised

• It was a permit to allow Indigenous people off their reserve

• It was the White paper written by the government

• It was the Red paper written by Alberta Chiefs

The celebrations that Indigenous people participated in was called

• A Pot Luck

• Assimilation

• A Potlatch

• none of these

The process of forcing Indigenous people to give up their way of life and be more like the settlers is known as

• Assimilation

• A simile

• Residential schools

• None of these

The Canadian Government forced Indigenous people to live on government parcels of land in Alberta that were called

• Centralised parcels of land

• High North reserves

• Road Allowances

• None of these

When was the White paper released?

• 1970

• 1996

• 1969

• None of these

What is the name of the policy that controlled Indigenous people's way of life

• Indian Status

• Indian Act

• Indian Pass System

• none of these

True or False: The Red paper was written by the Prime Minister of Canada and the Minister of Indian Affairs in 1969

• True

• False

True or False: A petition is what the Indigenous people created to protest the ban on their celebrations

• True

• False

True or False: Indigenous people were forced to give up their belongings when the Indian Agent raided their celebrations

• True

• False