Aboriginal Peoples in Canada Today

Over 1 million people in Canada are ______

8 out of 10 Aboriginal people live in Ontario and the Western ______

54% live in ______ centres

10% of Winnipeg’s population is ______

The term 'Aboriginal peoples' includes First Nations, Métis, and ______

First Nations reserves are lands that are claimed from the First ______

Reserves were created and land was set aside for specific First Nations peoples to use. In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was passed to assimilate Aboriginal peoples into European ______.

In 1876, the Indian Act allowed the federal government to set up residential schools for Aboriginal children, which were run by Anglican, United, Presbyterian, and Catholic ______.

In 1885, the potlatch ceremony was ______.

Many banned Aboriginal ceremonies continued in private, and the ban was officially lifted in ______.

The territory of Nunavut, created in 1999, was the largest land claim settlement in Canada’s ______.

Aboriginal spirituality has become recognized as an official ______; the eagle feather can now be used in the provincial justice system instead of a Bible.