Indigenous literacies are best described as:
A. Written language only
B. Art created only for museums
C. Living systems of knowledge connecting land, culture, and community
D. Skills learned only in school
C. Living systems of knowledge connecting land, culture, and community
Indigenous literacies connect land, culture, spirituality, community, and responsibility. They are living knowledge systems.
Indigenous creative practices are mainly:
A. For individual fame
B. Just for decoration
C. Purpose-driven and community-oriented
D. Separate from everyday life
C. Purpose-driven and community-oriented
Creative work has a purpose, helps the community, and is not just decoration.
Indigenous Peoples express worldview mainly through:
A. Only painting
B. Only writing
C. Visual culture, storytelling, music, dance, and media
D. Museums only
C. Visual culture, storytelling, music, dance, and media
The slides explain that meaning is shared through storytelling, music, dance, design, and visual culture, not just “art.”
Indigenous Knowledge Systems are best described as:
A. New systems created after Canada
B. Thousands of years old and place-based
C. Only spiritual beliefs
D. Classroom-based learning only
B. Thousands of years old and place-based
IKS existed long before Canada and are rooted in land and community.
In Indigenous Knowledge Systems, who is responsible for teaching children?
A. Only schools
B. Only elders
C. The whole community
D. The government
C. The whole community
Adults responsible for teaching each child how to
live a good life
Indigenous Knowledge Systems focus on learning that is:
A. Only for jobs
B. Competitive
C. Holistic and relational
D. Individualistic
C. Holistic and relational
Learning is about balance, relationships, responsibility, not just jobs.
What values are emphasized in Indigenous Knowledge Systems?
A. Competition and grades
B. Independence, listening, observing, practicing
C. Memorization only
D. Obedience to authority
B. Independence, listening, observing, practicing
listening, observing, practicing, and self-reliance.
Everyone knows their roles and responsibilities to self, family,
community, environment, including caring for the past and
future
Creates Belonging
Source of Pride
The phrase “Segregate to Assimilate” means:
A. Keeping cultures separate forever
B. Teaching Indigenous languages
C. Separating Indigenous people to erase their cultures
D. Promoting equality
C. Separating Indigenous people to erase their cultures
Colonial policies separated Indigenous people to force assimilation.
“The White Man’s Burden” promoted the idea that:
A. Colonization was harmful
B. Indigenous Peoples needed saving
C. Equality already existed
D. Education was unnecessar
B. Indigenous Peoples needed saving
It framed colonization as benevolent, “for their own good,” reinforcing white superiority.
The Indian Residential School System was created mainly to:
A. Educate Indigenous children equally
B. Preserve Indigenous cultures
C. Assimilate Indigenous children
D. Provide healthcare
C. Assimilate Indigenous children
The goal was assimilation, not education or care.
Which best describes assimilation?
A. Cultural exchange
B. Absorbing a group into dominant society
C. Protecting traditions
D. Mutual learning
B. Absorbing a group into dominant society
Assimilation means forcing people to give up their culture to fit the dominant one.
Colonel Richard H. Pratt believed:
A. Indigenous cultures should be protected
B. Children should stay with families
C. “Kill the Indian in him and save the man”
D. Education should be optional
C. “Kill the Indian in him and save the man”
This quote shows the violent ideology behind residential schools.
What made residential schools a form of genocide?
A. They were poorly funded
B. Children were separated and cultures erased
C. Schools were far away
D. They closed in 1996
B. Children were separated and cultures erased
Why were schools geographically isolated?
A. For better education
B. To save money
C. To keep children away from families and culture
D. For safety
C. To keep children away from families and culture
Why did the government insist on English-only education?
A. To promote diversity
B. To preserve Indigenous culture
C. To help assimilation into Canadian society
D. To help children speak with family
C. To help assimilation into Canadian society
The government believed children needed English to assimilate and fit into settler society.
Games and activities in residential schools were:
A. Free and creative
B. Strictly structured to teach obedience
C. Optional
D. Based on Indigenous traditions
B. Strictly structured to teach obedience
Playtime was regulated to create discipline and obedience.
Christianity in residential schools was taught as:
A. Optional
B. Cultural appreciation
C. Foundation for citizenship
D. One religion among many
C. Foundation for citizenship
Christianity was taught as necessary to become a “proper citizen.”
What kind of skills were students mainly taught?
A. University-level academics
B. Leadership skills
C. Basic labour skills (farming, sewing, cleaning)
D. Political activism
C. Basic labour skills (farming, sewing, cleaning)
Why were children used for labour?
A. To build confidence
B. To reduce school costs and benefit the school
C. For fun
D. To prepare for university
B. To reduce school costs and benefit the school
What does the school motto “No Idleness Here” show?
A. Encouragement of rest
B. Focus on productivity and labour
C. Cultural celebration
D. Academic excellence
B. Focus on productivity and labour
Dr. Peter Bryce described residential schools as:
A. Successful
B. A national achievement
C. A “national crime”
D. A model system
C. A “national crime”
When did the last residential school close?
A. 1970
B. 1985
C. 1990
D. 1996
D. 1996
Under the UN Genocide Convention, genocide includes:
A. Cultural exchange
B. Forcibly transferring children to another group
C. Teaching English
D. Religious conversion only
B. Forcibly transferring children to another group
Why is it difficult to prosecute Canada for residential school crimes under genocide law?
A. No records exist
B. Canada excluded the child-transfer clause
C. Survivors did not report
D. The UN did not exist
B. Canada excluded the child-transfer clause
