Final exam: For the final exam, you must answer 5 short answer questions (200 words each) and 2 of the long answer questions (400 words each).
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS: ANSWER ONLY 5 QUESTIONS OUT OF 6 FOR 10 POINTS EACH Show your understanding of the concepts used in the questions. Make sure you provide examples or specific information to show your understanding of the answer. Use class sources
1. Treaty making is a form of relational and political diplomacy that predates European colonization. What are some examples of pre-colonial Treaties, and what can they teach us about Indigenous laws, worldviews and governance?
2. What are non-Indigenous Treaty obligations? What does it mean to honour Treaties in “good faith”?
3. Discuss gender discrimination and ways it has been embedded in the Indian Act?
4. Explain the relationship between the “over-incarceration” rates of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the role of the penitentiary in the process of colonization.
5. Discuss Cree laws, including procedures, legal responses, obligations and rights for individuals and community members, when a community resolves a conflict between a member of a community who has harmed another member of the community.
6. Discuss the theme of reunions occurring in episode 9 of the Finding Cleo podcast, outlining scenes, and explaining the reasons why specific events within the episode have a “reunion” theme.
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS: ANSWER 2 QUESTIONS FOR 25 POINTS EACH. Long answers give you a chance to engage in deeper analysis of the course material and objectives. Use your time and space to write a short essay answer to ONLY 2 of the following questions. You will be graded on analysis, content, and your ability to synthesize course content into broader implications and ideas about settler colonialism in Canada today:
1. How would you describe to someone – who hasn’t taken this course and isn’t well informed on Indigenous issues – that colonialism in Canada is not a historical event, but part of everyday life in this country for Indigenous peoples?
2. What are “colonial logics” and how do they work through historical and contemporary institutions, like the media, law courts, the criminal justice system, and social work? Please reference examples from the Finding Cleo podcast in your answer.
3. Residential school survivors recently visited the Pope to advocate for justice, including the repudiation of legal arguments that were used to justify colonization and the residential school system. Discuss the legal fictions used to colonize land, claim sovereignty, and impose reserves and the residential school system. Apply the course curriculum (readings, videos, historical events, theories) to this unfolding situation,
including the voices of Indigenous peoples (scholars, leaders, survivors).
INSTRUCTIONS: Double-spaced, regular margins, any font, strictly follow word count
• Short Answer: Select 5 questions to answer, out of the 6 short answer questions listed. Short
answers should be around 200 words in length. Each answer is worth 10 points.
• Long Answer: Select 2 questions out of the 3 long answer questions below to answer. Long
answers should be around 400 words in length. Each answer is worth 25 points.
• If you are over / under in your answers by more than around 20 words, you will be docked points
map out your answer to each question to make sure you are answering exactly what is asked of you and that you are familiar with and understanding the terms and concepts in the question
