ANTHRO 150 - Final Exam - Racism

what are the 3 categories of indigenous people? where do they typically originate from?

• inuit: in northern canada, alaska and greenland

• first nations: the territories south of the arctic regions

• metis people: typically a union between first nation people and european settlers.

what is a visible minority?

• a category of people who are not caucasian (white) or aboriginal/indigenous

• visible minorities do not include indigenous people, however “people of colour” do.

what is the difference between registered and non-registered aborignal people?

• registered first nations are labeled as “Status Indian”

• first nations that are not registered or has lost their status are labeled as “Non-Status indian”

what is enfrachisment?

when first nations and aboriginal people lost their status

what were the 3 categories of race used in canada?

• indigenous peoples

• caucasian (white)

• visible minorities

what is the official classification for “white” people and their two main groups

• people of european ancestry

• two main groups: anglo canadians and french canadians

why is defining the majority group in canada complicated

many individuals report canadian as their ethnic or cultural origin

what is the indian act and how did it specify who is a registered status indian?

• a law established in 1876 that legally defines who an indigenous person is in canada

• “any male person that belongs to a specific band, his children and his wife”

what was the register in terms of the indian act?

• a list of people who were considered to be indians under the indian act legislation

compare and contrast a status indian vs a non-status indian

• status: an FN person who is registered under the indian act

• non-status: first nations people who are not registered or who have loss their status (enfranchisement)

what were some of the reasons indigenous peoples could lose their status?

• receiving an education (not seen as compatible with being indigenous),

• becoming a doctor, lawyer,

• becoming a christian minister or living abroad

• for women: marrying outside their race