The Story of Canadian Indigenous Spirituality (WIP)

T/F

Canada's Indigenous population is growing at a faster rate than the non-Indigenous population.

True

T/F

An elder is always one of the oldest people in an Indigenous community.

False

What does stem of the sacred pipe represents?

Puberty

What do Indigenous people consider time to be?

Circular

The word "Inuit" means "the ___________________________."

The people

The identification of the spirit with objects it inhabits is called ___________________________.

Animism

The Seven ___________________________ refers to an Ojibwa prophecy that the people would suffer and forget their traditional ways.

Fires

“Discussions and debates within a religion”

Intra-religious debates

“To absorb one group into the culture of another”

Assimilation

“A ritual used for purification”

Smudging

Defenition of Aboriginal peoples

What is an elder?

What is a shaman?

What is a vision quest?

What is the sacred pipe?

What is a potlach?

What is a longhouse?

What is a naming ceremony?

What is a smudging ceremony?

What are residential schools?

What is the medicine wheel?

What is the significance of eagle feathers?

What is the significance of Nunavut Legislature?

Time – what is it considered?

What are Residential Schools? – level of government overseeing it

What are the names of the Great Spirit?

What is a sundance?

What is the Census figures from 2006 of Indigenous People?

What is a powwoww?

What is the Ojibwa Feast of the Dead?

Who is the Creator?

What are the parts of the sacred pipe?

Spirituality – What does it mean to Indigenous people?

What is the significance of hair?

What is a sweatlodge?

What is the significance of death?

What are their thanksgiving celebrations?

What is Kateri Tekakwitha?

What is the significance of 2009 – Pope Benedict XVI?