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define white mans burden |
the idea that the white man was superior to everyone else and it was his responsibility to educate other savage people |
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define eurocentrism |
the idea that the european culture and way of life is superior to all others |
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define imperialism |
an assertion between people that intentionally benefits one person over another |
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define the Hudson bay company |
an english company that was made to trade in all parts of north america |
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define the north west company |
a french company made to compete in the fur trade against the hudsons bay company |
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define missionaries |
British people sent to other places to spread the Christianity religion |
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define treaties |
the agreements made between the government and first nations |
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define reserves |
The land given to first nations that they were allowed to live on |
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describe the nisga FN people |
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define paternalism |
a way of governing people restraining them from having equal rights and responsibilities |
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describe chief crowfoot |
fought with and stood up for first nations right during colonization |
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describe thomas king |
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describe the indian act |
recognized status indians and outlined what they got |
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describe the buffalo slaughter |
done by european people, the excessive killing of buffalo for fun and entertainment |
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define the Canadian pacific railway |
the railway built to connect Canada and to make trading and importing of goods easier |
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who did the cp rail benefit |
the rich people such as merchants not the indians |
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define british india |
a company in east india that started as a group of traders but developed political control |
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descibe gandhi |
believed that imposition of British culture in india was unjust |
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define the royal commission on aboriginal people |
canadian royal commission that was made to outline many problems with the aboriginal status or indian problem |
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define residential schools |
boarding schools for made the assimilation of fist nation children into British cultures |
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describe duncan campell scott |
super intending of federal department of indian affairs and he made it so it was mandatory for children ages 7 to 15 to attend residential schools |
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describe the aboriginal healing foundation |
made to help people who have survived residential schools and have lasting effects |
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describe the oka crisis |
mohawk poeple barricaded a road near quebec because decisions were made to extend a golf course without their permission of what was thought to be their land. |
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describe the congo free state |
was colonized by king leopold the second and he did this to get rich but told the gov he was trying to help with the white mans burden. he abused and killed many aboriginal people in congo and was eventually busted for his lies and then congo was overtaken by the gov. |
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define zapatistas |
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what does nafta mean |
not american free trade agreement |
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define nafta |
north american free trade agreement |