INDG 305 Midterm 1 Exam. | Questions and Answers | Fall 2025 Update | 100% Correct - SFU.

MIDTERM 1 Due Oct 18 at 11:59pm Points 50 Questions 47 Available until Dec 3 at 11:59pm Time Limit 120 Minutes Instructions Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 49 minutes 49 out of 50 Score for this quiz: 49 out of 50 Submitted Oct 15 at 8:23pm This attempt took 49 minutes.  Question 1 1 / 1 pts Correct! True False  Question 2 1 / 1 pts Correct! True False  Question 3 1 / 1 pts a. A system for sharing the land with settlers b. A set of financial agreements guaranteeing First Nations support in times of need Correct! This midterm covers Weeks 1- to 6. This test is timed. Students will have 120 minutes to complete this test, which involves multiple choice, true/false, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions. This test can only be attempted once. The Royal Proclamation asserts that land belonging to Indians cannot be sold to individuals. The majority of land in British Columbia remains unceded. Instead of negotiating treaties on mainland British Columbia, Governor Douglas created what instead…?c. The reserve system d. A peace and friendship agreement  Question 4 1 / 1 pts a. They were an essential part of the fur trade Correct! b. They were used to ratify treaties with the Haudenosaunee c. They were frequently given to women as jewelry d. Colonial authorities only traded in wampum  Question 5 1 / 1 pts a. The Indian Act b. The Manitoba Act Correct! c. The Royal Proclamation d. The Douglas Treaties  Question 6 1 / 1 pts a. Encroaching settlers viewed Indigenous peoples as an economic threat b. Internal changes within the colonial government put inexperienced officials in charge of Indian affairs c. Indigenous military allies were no longer needed against American incursions d. None of the Above e. A and C Correct! f. All of the Above  Question 7 1 / 1 pts a. Nunavut Correct! Why were wampum belts traded? Which pre-confederation law is still enshrined in the Constitution under Section 35? Why did treaty making change drastically after the war of 1812? The Red River Resistance () led to the creation of which province?b. Manitoba c. Alberta d. Saskatchewan  Question 8 1 / 1 pts a. The Anishinaabe of Treaty 3 Correct! b. The Métis c. The Déné d. The Cree of Treaty 6 e. A and D f. A and C  Question 9 1 / 1 pts a. The Métis b. The Cree Correct! c. The Imperial Government d. The Hudson’s Bay Company  Question 10 1 / 1 pts True Correct! False  Question 11 1 / 1 pts Correct! True False  Which group or groups formed a provisional government in response to the Rupert’s Land transfer? The Rupert’s Land transfer involved plans to sell land to which party? The Rupert’s Land Transfer extinguished Aboriginal Title. The Burden of Aboriginal Title fell on the Dominion government after the Rupert’s Land Transfer.Question 12 1 / 1 pts a. The financial duties around reserves and Indian status b. The responsibility of land stewardship c. The duty to administer Indians according to Dominion law Correct! d. The need to negotiate treaties in order to claim land  Question 13 1 / 1 pts a. Métis political leaders were exiled instead of admitted to government b. Indigenous languages provisions were not enacted Correct! c. Land transfers were poorly administered and failed to give the Métis a land base d. The promised railroad infrastructure never materialized  Question 14 1 / 1 pts True Correct! False  Question 15 1 / 1 pts a. They affirm the sacred nature of the agreements being made b. The Sacred Pipe reflects Indigenous spiritual beliefs c. They belong to Indigenous kinship practices Correct! d. All of the above  The Burden of Aboriginal Title refers to. . . ? In regards to Indigenous issues, what aspect of the Manitoba Act failed to be implemented properly? Indigenous people were consulted before the federal government drafted the Indian Act. Both Treaties 3 and 6 involved Sacred Pipe ceremonies. Why were these practices important to the treaty negotiations?Question 16 1 / 1 pts a. The Métis refused to negotiate Correct! b. The location of negotiators camp suggested to Indigenous negotiators that treaty talks were not going to be impartial c. First Peoples had to arrive from many different places d. Morris could not start until the HBC factor arrived  Question 17 1 / 1 pts a. the HBC was selling Indigenous lands b. the Canadian government did not involve First Peoples in the sale c. First Peoples did not receive any funds from the transfer Correct! d. All of the above  Question 18 1 / 1 pts a. Shared jurisdiction over land b. Shared stewardship over ecological phenomena c. Working together to achieve equal prosperity Correct! d. All of the above  Question 19 1 / 1 pts Correct! a. A clause stipulating that all rights, titles, and privileges are ceded b. A clause stipulating that only some rights and titles are ceded c. A clause stipulating that annuities can never increase d. The treaties did not have blanket extinguishment clauses  Question 20 1 / 1 pts The talks for Treaty 4 started late. Why? Why was the Rupert’s land transfer so contentious amongst First Peoples? According to First Nations perspectives, what does land sharing entail? What is a “blanket extinguishment” clause?a. Indigenous peoples had been requesting it b. Dominion negotiators wanted access to crucial water ways c. The federal government wanted to run the CPR line through their territory Correct! d. A and B e. A and C  Question 21 1 / 1 pts True Correct! False Tuberculosis preys on immunocompromised communities. Indigenous people have no unique susceptibility.  Question 22 1 / 1 pts Correct! True False The Americans tried to exterminate the bison in order to exterminate Indigenous peoples.  Question 23 1 / 1 pts a. The Cree were hunters and largely nomadic b. The Cree had never undertaken farming at such scales c. The Cree were already struggling with food shortages Correct! d. All of the above  Question 24 1 / 1 pts a. A land surrender What were the reasons for negotiating the Treaty of Lake Winnipeg? Indigenous people are naturally more susceptible to tuberculosis. The American military tried to starve out First Peoples in order to subdue them. Why did Cree leaders like Poundmaker anticipate that transitioning to agriculture would be difficult? Finish this sentence. Most Indigenous oral histories portray Treaty Seven as . . .b. A temporary agreement Correct! c. A peace treaty d. None of the above  Question 25 0 / 1 pts a. Longstanding hostilities Correct Answer b. Food and game shortages c. Territorial disputes You Answered d. All of the above  Question 26 1 / 1 pts Correct! a. They had seen what happened to their southern counterparts b. They believed they could hold out for a better deal c. They did not understand what the purpose of treaties were d. All of the above  Question 27 1 / 1 pts a. They had lost the war Correct! b. The treaties are sacred c. They had grown attached to their reserves d. They could not create an army While Indigenous people could have potentially militated against the government, the primary reason they did not do so was because of the sacred nature of the treaty agreements, consecrated by ceremonies like the Sacred Pipe. To break these treaties would be an act of catastrophic spiritual disruption.  During the treaty signings, the Blackfoot were concerned about Métis and Cree incursions into their territory due to. . . First Nations in more northern territories were wary about signing treaties with the Dominion because . . . After 1876, what was the primary reason that First Nations did not want to break their treaties?Question 28 1 / 1 pts Correct! True False  Question 29 1 / 1 pts True Correct! False First Peoples agreed to land sharing agreements not land surrenders.  Question 30 1 / 1 pts a. 1913 b. 1918 c. 1925 Correct! d. 1927  Question 31 1 / 1 pts a. The Native Brotherhood b. The North American Indian Brotherhood Correct! c. The Allied Tribes d. All of the Above  Question 32 1 / 1 pts a. The King was not interested Dominion negotiators failed to explain the land surrenders clauses of the treaties. First Nations agreed to surrender their lands to the Dominion of Canada. Which year was the Indian Act changed to make it illegal for First Nations people to hire lawyers? After World War I, which BC provincial organization sent a delegation to London to advocate for Indigenous land rights? Why did the 1926 London Delegation not succeed in bringing their case before the King?Correct! b. Canadian officials blocked the delegation from meeting with the King c. The Delegation missed their appointment d. Canadian officials made a deal with the delegates to solve the issue in Canada  Question 33 1 / 1 pts Correct! True False  Question 34 1 / 1 pts a. The Constitution b. The Numbered Treaties c. The B.C. Land Question Correct! d. The Indian Act  Question 35 1 / 1 pts a. 1927 b. 1943 Correct! c. 1951 d. 1964  Question 36 1 / 1 pts Correct! equality Correct Answers equality According to the English courts, Canada has no legal right to absolve itself of the treaties. In 1946, the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons was struck to consider amendments to which law? When was the Indian Act amended to allow Indigenous people to hire lawyers again? Trudeau’s vision for a “Just Society” used _______ as an argument for dismantling the Indian Aess equity multiculturalism discrimination  Question 37 1 / 1 pts Correct! termination Correct Answers assimilation termination genocidal enfranchisement  Question 38 1 / 1 pts a. What reparations were owed to the Nisga’a b. A land claims issue Correct! c. Whether Aboriginal Title had been extinguished in their territory d. Whether they had Aboriginal rights  Question 39 1 / 1 pts a. In favour of the Nisga’a b. In favour of the Crown Correct! c. It was a tie d. The case was thrown out of court  Question 40 1 / 1 pts However, many Indigenous scholars, activists, and political leaders have argued that Trudeau and Chretien's policies were just another version of the early colonial __________ policies. The Calder Case asked the courts to decide what? The Judges’ decision ruled. . . Why did one of the judges in the Calder Case abstain from making a judgement?a. The Nisga’a had improperly submitted forms Correct! b. The Nisga’a had not received permission to sue the Province c. He wanted a re-trial d. There was an error in their definition of Aboriginal title  Question 41 1 / 1 pts Correct! True False  Question 42 1 / 1 pts Correct! True False  Question 43 1 / 1 pts Correct! True False  Question 44 1 / 1 pts Andrew Paull address the Senate and House Committee on the Indian Act The Canadian Constitution was reviewed Correct! Harold Cardinal presented the Red Paper to the Trudeau government The National Indian Brotherhood was created  The Nisga’a did not consider the Supreme Court decision to be a loss. The Nisga’a now have a modern treaty with the federal government. Indigenous women’s political advocacy has had to combat sexism within Indigenous political movements as well within the Indian Act, due to the impact colonial legislation has had on creating gender inequities within Indigenous communities. You Are on Indian Land was filmed in 1969. Besides this protest in Akwesasne, what important event in Indigenous organizing happened the year after this documentary?Question 45 1 / 1 pts Treaty 6 Treaty 11 The Robinson Treaties Correct! The Jay Treaty  Question 46 1 / 1 pts True Correct! False  Question 47 4 / 4 pts Correct! the Nisga’a Final Agreement is ratified 2000 Correct! The Allied Tribes go to London 1926 Correct! the Supreme Court of Canada decides the Calder Case 1973 Correct! the Nisga’a establish a committee for land rights 1890 Quiz Score: 49 out of 50 You Are on Indian Land is a film that documents the protest against the abrogation of which treaty? Due to a recent change in legislation, the residents of Akwesasne are now free to cross the borders without any issues from the border guards. Match the dates to the events