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  • Term List and Glossary
  • Lesson 1 - Worldview
  • Lesson 2 - Fur Trade
  • Lesson 3 - Trick or Treaty
  • Lesson 4 - New Rules, New Game
  • Lesson 5 - "Killing the Indian in the Child"
  • Lesson 6 - A Modern Indian?
  • Lesson 7 - Red Power
  • Lesson 8 - Sovereign Lands
  • Lesson 9 - Indigenous Women
  • Lesson 10 - Indigenous in the City
  • Lesson 11 - Current Social Movements
  • Lesson 12 - 'Living Traditions': Expressions in Pop Culture and Art

Term List and Glossary

Here you will find the term list / glossary with definitions for each lesson in the entire Indigenous Canada MOOC.

  • Lesson 1 - Worldview
  • Lesson 2 - Fur Trade
  • Lesson 3 - Trick or Treaty
  • Lesson 4 - New Rules, New Game
  • Lesson 5 - "Killing the Indian in the Child"
  • Lesson 6 - A Modern Indian?
  • Lesson 7 - Red Power
  • Lesson 8 - Sovereign Lands
  • Lesson 9 - Indigenous Women
  • Lesson 10 - Indigenous in the City
  • Lesson 11 - Current Social Movements
  • Lesson 12 - 'Living Traditions' - Expressions in Pop Culture and Art

Find out more about Indigenous Canada

Learn about course topics and outcomes, and find out how you can participate in the course.

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Territorial Acknowledgement

The University of Alberta, its buildings, labs and research stations are primarily located on the territory of the Néhiyaw (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Métis, Nakoda (Stoney), Dene, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and Anishinaabe (Ojibway/Saulteaux), lands that are now known as part of Treaties 6, 7 and 8 and homeland of the Métis. The University of Alberta respects the sovereignty, lands, histories, languages, knowledge systems and cultures of all First Nations, Métis and Inuit nations.

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