The Indian Act

What year was the Indian Act introduced?

According to the Indian Act, uncultivated reserve lands could be rented out to to non-Indigenous peoples if the new leaseholder would use it for...

• Farming or pasture

• New municipal developments

• Church land

Indigenous women could have Status when the Indian Act was introduced

• True

• False

The Indian Act allowed Indigenous peoples to form political organizations

• True

• False

Who did Indigenous peoples on reserve have to get permission from to leave the reserve?

• Reserve gatekeeper

• Indian Agent

• Premier

• Mayor

The system by which Indigenous peoples had to gain permission to leave reserve land was called....

• The reserve system

• The Indian Agent system

• The pass system

Which of these things was not forbidden for Indigenous peoples by the Indian Act?

• Voting

• Appearing in any public dance, show, exhibition, stampede wearing traditional regalia

• Speaking native languages

• Speaking to white men

How many numbered treaties exist in Canada?

• 4

• 22

• 11

• 14

The Indigenous peoples tried to establish treaties where their land would be next to each other in order to create an Indigenous territory.

• True

• False

The introduction of the Indian Act set things in motion for Residential Schools

• True

• False