Canada Past and Present: A Citizenship Education Guide

Canada’s Indigenous Peoples: Fill in the Blanks Canada has three legally recognized Indigenous peoples: First Nations, Métis, and Inuit. Each of the following sentences describes one of these peoples. Work with your classmates to find the correct answer. 1) The name of this group means “the people” in Inuktut, which is the name of their language. 2) Some members of this group speak a language called Michif, which is a mix of three different languages. 3) Some nations within this group include Cree, Mohawk, Anishinaabe, Mi’kmaq, Dene, and Blackfoot. 4) Members of this group live across Canada, but most of them live in the Prairie provinces. 5) This group invented a kind of boat called a kayak and a snow house called an igloo. 6) The name for this group is related to a French word that means “mixed.” 7) Because it’s difficult to grow food in areas where many members of this group live, their traditional diet is very high in meat, especially seal, walrus, and fish. 8) About half of the members of this group live on reserves, which are areas of land set aside by the government for their use. 9) One famous member of this group was Louis Riel, who led his people in a resistance against the Canadian government in Manitoba in 1869. 10) They are the descendants of French fur traders and First Nations people, and they have a culture that’s different from other Indigenous peoples. 11) This group mostly lives in four northern areas called Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, and Inuvialuit. 12) Members of this group speak more than sixty different languages. The two largest are Cree and Ojibwe. 13) As of 2016, there were nearly a million members of this group living in Canada. 14) As of 2016, there were nearly 600,000 members of this group living in Canada. 15) As of 2016, there were about 65,000 members of this group living in Canada. CANADA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WORKSHEET 2.