Chapter Sixteen: Aboriginal Canada: World War II to the Present

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Question 1
Which of the following did not happen at the Yale-Toronto Conference on the North American Indian?
a. The delegates discussed reserve economics.
b. The delegates managed to articulate a unified vision of the future of Native peoples, and after vigorous debate agreed on an implementation plan.
c. The Native delegates broke away from the main group and met separately to pass their own resolutions.
d. The Native delegates participated in many discussions.

Question 2
Which of the following events did not take place?
a. The federal government used the War Measures Act to expropriate one-third of Ontario's Stoney Point Reserve.
b. To save money, the Indian Affairs Branch removed status Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia from nineteen small reserved to two large ones.
c. Malcolm McCrimmon revised the membership lists in the Lester Slave Lake agency, trimming 700 individuals from them.
d. In 1936, the federal government demoted the Department of Indian Affairs to a branch of the Department of Mines and Resources.

Question 3
What was the underlying goal of the Indian Act revised in 1951?
a. assimilation of the status Indian
b. autonomy and self-sufficiency for remote Native groups and communities and assimilation of Native people living in urban areas
c. satisfactory settlement of all land claims
d. improvement of living conditions (particularly as related to health) on reserves

Question 4
Which of the following did the Hawthorn Commission recommend?
a. It recommended that Ottawa give Native people the right to vote in federal elections.
b. It recommended that Native people be treated as "citizens plus."
c. It recommended that the Indian Act be revised to allow Native women to vote in band council elections.
d. It recommended that the potlatch and other Native cultural practices be legalized.

Question 5
Why did Aboriginal leaders oppose the government's "White Paper"?
a. They wanted the provinces, not the federal government, to be responsible for Indian affairs, so that all issues could be discussed and decided locally.
b. They saw the system of reserves it proposed as highly inadequate.
c. It negated the Aboriginal people's right to negotiate comprehensive, as opposed to specific, claims.
d. They believed that the elimination of the Indian Act meant the end of the Native peoples' special constitutional status and spelled assimilation.

Question 6
Which of the following was the first comprehensive land claim signed after the enactment of the new federal policy in 1974?
a. the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
b. the Cree of Lubicon Lake Treaty Agreement
c. the Oka Agreement
d. the Nisga'a Land Claim Agreement

Question 7
According to the 1991 census, Aboriginal people constitute about
a. 1 percent of Canada's population.
b. 3 percent of Canada's population.
c. 6 percent of Canada's population.
d. 9 percent of Canada's population.

Question 8
What result has Bill C-31 had on reserves?
a. Reserves have been able to get significantly more funding from the federal government.
b. Many women have left reserves, which caused birth rates to drop.
c. Many reserves have been able to move to self-government.
d. Resources have been strained because of swelling membership lists.

Question 9
Who headed the commission charged with investigating the feasibility of building a pipeline through the Mackenzie valley?
a. Jean Chrétien
b. Georges Erasmus
c. Thomas Berger
d. Elijah Smith

Question 10
What was one of the reasons that the Dene and the Métis were pleased when the Inuvialuit decided to choose to adhere to Denendeh?
a. The Dene and the Métis gained additional bargaining power against the Inuit in the east.
b. In making this decision, the Inuvialuit respected blood ties, making for a more unified population in Denendeh.
c. The additional population would help raise the Native population in Denendeh to the point of near-equality with that of the non-Native population.
d. The treaty negotiations would not be disrupted again by disagreements among Native leaders.

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