20 Question Indigenous Awareness Quiz

Let’s have take a fun knowledge test to see how much you know about Canada’s Indigenous Peoples .

There are 20 questions. You must reach 80% to pass. You can take the exam as many times as you like. There is no time limit.

1. Besides Indians – what other Indigenous groups are there in Canada?

2. What are the four (4) categories of Indians in Canada?

3. Approximately 60% of registered status First Nations peoples are “treaty Indians”. Why is it that the other 40%of this group are not “treaty Indians”?

4. Where in North America is the “Historic Métis Homeland?

5. What is the average annual payment individual registered status treaty Indians (First Nations) receive?

6. Which category of Indians in Canada are referred to as First Nations?

7. Are the Inuit peoples of Canada governed by the Indian Act?

8. What year did the Bill C-31 Indians first appear in Canada?

9. Do non-status Indians qualify for tax exemption under the Indian Act?

10. When were Métis people first recognized as a separate and distinct Indigenous Nation in Canada?

11. Why is it that 40% of all registered status “Indians” that are not “treaty Indians” receive treaty benefits such as tax exemptions, medical benefits, housing subsidies, post-secondary education etc. when they have never signed any treaties?

12. As Indigenous Peoples, do Métis and Inuit pay income tax?

13. Which is the only province in Canada where some Métis people have a land base?

14. What are the Indigenous Peoples that live in the arctic regions of Canada called?

15. There are 640 Indigenous governments in Canada. How many have achieved self-government?

16. There are 3117 pieces of land in Canada that are reserved for registered status “Indians” called Reserves. The total combined land mass of all Reserves in Canada is smaller than the land mass of the Navaho Reservation in Arizona in the United States – TRUE or FALSE?

17. Approximately 150,000 Indigenous children attended Residential Schools. What percentage of these children died there? 15% or 25% or 35% or 50%

18. In what year did the last Indian Residential School close?

19A. Can you describe a Treaty Right?

19B. Can you describe an Indigenous Right?

20. Can you name three (3) national Indigenous political organizations?