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Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Social 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Affirm | To validate and express commitment to something |
| Anglophone | A person who speaks English |
| Annuity | An annual payment |
| Assimilate | Become part of a different cultural group |
| Autonomy | Authority to make decisions |
| Bilingualism | To use 2 different languages |
| Collective | A group of people |
| Collective identity | The shared identity of a group of people, especially because of a common language and culture |
| Collective rights | Rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canadian society for historical and constitutional reasons. These groups are: Aboriginal Metis and Inuit; and francophones and Anglophones |
| Entrenching | To protect something by putting it into the constitution |
| Ethnocentrism | The belief that one's culture is superior to all other cultures |
| First Nations | The umbrella name for the diverse aboriginal peoples who have collective rights that are recognized and protected |
| Francophone | Someone who speaks French |
| Indian | The word used by the europeans to describe first nations when they came to canada |
| Indian Act | status of first nations people (Status:indians) first passed in 1876, amended several times |
| Inherent rights | Rights with origins in fundamental justice |
| Metis | a person of indigenous and european descent |
| Negotiate | Obtain or bring about by discussion |
| Official language community | one of the groups in Canadian society whose members speak an official language of Canada, French or English, as their first language |
| Official language minority | A group whose preferred language isn't the majority language in their community |
| Patriate | Transfer control over from a mother country to its former dependency |
| Perspective | A specific point of view |
| Publicly funded | Paid for by taxes and provided by government |
| Quality of life | A measure of personal and collective well being |
| Reserve | Land for the exclusive use of First Nations |
| Residential Schools | Government sponsored church run boarding schools |
| Scrip | In metis history, a document that could be exchanged for land and that was offered the metis at the time the numbered treaties were negotiated |
| Sovereignty | Independence as a people, with a right to self-government |
| Treaty | A formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries |
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