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Aboriginal Treaties and Relations Crossword

An activity for use with the Canada in the Making site

Answers available in the versions below.

Across:
9. The first Aboriginal Senator in Canada was Joseph ______________.
10. In 1990, there was a major crisis between Mohawks and the federal government over a burial ground near the Mohawk town of __________.
11. The _______________ Proclamation of 1763 was written to ensure fair and voluntary land dealings between the British and Aboriginals.
12. In 1870s the _____________ Act was passed, which defined who was considered an Indian.
13. Called half-breeds for many years, the ____________ come from mixed Aboriginal and European ancestors.
14. The Métis leader, __________, led his people in two rebellions against the Canadian government.
17. ____________________, a Cree chief in the 1870s, at first refused to sign Treaty Number Six.
18. When the very popular Aboriginal leader _______________ was killed in the War of 1812, unity between Aboriginal nations was badly weakened.
19. _________________ schools, places of much abuse, were intended to train aboriginals to integrate into white Canadian society.
20. Land set aside by treaty for status Indians are called _________________.

Down:
1. For a long time, it was government policy to ______________ aboriginals into white society.
2. The __________ are the main indigenous people of Arctic Canada.
3. In 1970, Aboriginal peoples in Canada published the ________ Paper in response to the federal government's white paper on Aboriginal policy.
4. Before Europeans made contact, treaties mad by Aboriginals were _________ treaties.
5. Treaty Number Six has been interpreted by some as promising health care to Aboriginals because it contained the provision for a _____________ chest in the house of an Indian agent.
6. Sir Francis Bond _________ believed that the Aboriginal peoples could not be integrated into Canadian society and tried remove many Aboriginals from their land
7. Aboriginals who sided with Britain during the American Revolution were called __________ and granted land in Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick after the war.
8. The Six Nations Confederacy is also known as the _____________ Confederacy.
15. One purpose of the ______________ Treaties was to secure prairie land from the Aboriginals for settlement and agricultural and industrial development by whites.
16. _____________ is Canada's newest territory.