Chapter 3 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- Compare how certain animals species interact with each other to how humans do.
- What do you think makes a question "good" or "bad"? Can you give examples of each?
- What strategies do you use to brainstorm ideas?
- How do you dig deeper on questions that matter to you?
- Have you ever been asked a question that made you think differently or changed your perspective?
- Do you ask big enough questions? Does society?
- Do you - and should you - tailor your questions to the audience or person you are asking?
- What role does active listening play in asking better questions?
- What did you learn in this story?
- What are your views on what was discussed?
- Is it possible to disagree respectfully?
- How do you balance open-ended questions that encourage discussion with more specific questions that elicit precise information?
- Explain this quote from Dr. Leroy Little Bear: “In this era of Truth and Reconciliation, most people are talking about reconciliation. Not too many people are talking about truth. And I think a good starting point is to focus on the truth.”
- How do you handle situations where you don't understand something but are hesitant to ask questions? What strategies could you use to overcome this hesitation?
Reflection Activity
- Option One: Create a visual, multi-media timeline of an issue outlined in the lesson media. Include important dates and events that relate to the issue.
- Option Two: Have a conversation with an Indigenous community near you. Learn their history and ask questions about their experiences on the land. Be sure to listen and take notes.
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- There Are No Rules
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- Making Good
- Teaching the Dinosaur to Dance
- Waterlution
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- Don’t Look Up Points Out Science Communication Challenges
- Rethink science communication for the post-pandemic era
- Top tips for getting your science out there
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- Nature Shows Are Hot Again
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- Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter to release 71 black bears this spring
- Wildlife society returns rehabbed BC bears to the wild
- Dr. Kerry Bowman
- What Happens to Problem Bears That Go to Rehab?
- Evaluating the success of grizzly bear rehabilitation in British Columbia
- Scientists call on Alberta government to lift ban on rehabilitating orphaned grizzly bear cubs
- Death of grizzly cub puts Alberta's bear rehabilitation policies under scrutiny
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- Should orphaned bear cubs be rehabilitated?
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- Standards in Wildlife Rehabilitation
- Population-level effects of wildlife rehabilitation and release vary with life-history strategy
- Orphaned black bear cubs left to fend for themselves under Alberta policy
- Humans Have a Long History of Making ‘Very Bad Decisions’ to Save Animals
- Why an Alberta wildlife rescue group is going to build an enclosure for orphaned grizzly cubs despite provincewide ban
- Wildlife conservation and preserving biodiversity: impactful opportunities for veterinarians?
- More needs to be done to protect biodiversity
- A ‘Crossroads’ for Humanity: Earth’s Biodiversity Is Still Collapsing
- Saving bears takes a lot of gas. This B.C. rescue says it needs more funds to keep doing the work
- Thankful Outdoorsman
- A healthy environment and a healthy economy
- Why we're calling out the left and the right of Canadian politics
- Manage Your Assumptions And Make Conclusions Based on Facts
- Populism and the Ban on the Grizzly Hunt
- Watch Episodes from EXPOSED with John E. Marriott
- Debate: ChatGPT reminds us why good questions matter
- In B.C., emotion is trumping science-based wildlife management
- The Myth of Science-Based Wildlife Management
- Wolves a sort of serial killers
- 850 Coyotes and Foxes Killed in 2-Day Multi-State Wildlife Killing Contest
- Wolf Wars: America's Campaign to Eradicate the Wolf
- Trans Mountain pipeline: Why some First Nations want to stop it — and others want to own it
- Indigenous Canadians want natural resources development
- We are Wet'suwet'en and the Coastal GasLink pipeline protesters do not represent us
- Exploring the rise of 'economic reconciliation' in Canada
- Majority of Indigenous peoples support resource development
- Economic reconciliation: Supporting a return to Indigenous prosperity
- The Coastal Gaslink Pipeline
- Wet’suwet’en Nation
- Is there a chance that Coastal GasLink pipeline investors will walk away from the project?
- Moving mountains: Is the Coastal GasLink pipeline a saviour or scourge?
- ‘We have a lot of healing to do’: Matriarch asks for privacy as nation heals
- The Wet'suwet'en conflict disrupting Canada's rail system
- Trudeau in talks with cabinet ministers as nation-wide pipeline protests continue
- Six relics vs. one B.C. pipeline: How the Wet’suwet’en’s fight against a natural gas project became an argument about archeology
- Hereditary Chiefs versus Elected Chiefs
- A year after RCMP raids on Wet’suwet’en territory, the Coastal GasLink conflict isn’t going away
- Did the Protests Work? The Wet’suwet’en Resistance One Year Later
- 'We still have title': How a landmark B.C. court case set the stage for Wet'suwet'en protests
- 25 years after the Delgamuukw case, the fight for land is more contentious than ever
- St’át’imc Nation
- Private Property, Freedom and the West
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- Indigenous Ownership
- Jasper Tour Company
- Making Nunavut truly “our land”
- Creation of a New Northwest Territories
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- Unceded: Why we acknowledge, or don't, that B.C. First Nations never signed away land
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- The BC Treaty Commission
- Crown land use application
- Government of Canada and the duty to consult
- Meech Lake Accord
- Charlottetown Accord
- 25 years since Elijah Harper said 'no' to the Meech Lake Accord
- Thirty years on, the boos to the Charlottetown accord still echo throughout Canada
- Failure of the Meech Lake accord lingers on
- 'We are not opening the Constitution': Trudeau pans Quebec's plans
- Rejection of Charlottetown accord ended era of constitutional reform
- Supreme Court Judgments - R. v. Sparrow
- Supreme Court Judgments - Delgamuukw v. British Columbia
- Supreme Court Judgements - Blueberry River Indian Band v. Canada (Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development)
- Understanding the differences between Aboriginal Law and Indigenous Law
- The Doctrine of Discovery and Terra Nullius
- The Wet'suwet'en conflict disrupting Canada's rail system
- ‘We’ve got a real divide in the community:’ Wet’suwet’en Nation in turmoil
- Indigenous supporters of Coastal GasLink speak out on the division and backlash
- A year after RCMP raids on Wet’suwet’en territory, the Coastal GasLink conflict isn’t going away
- TC Energy CEO ‘extremely disappointed’ by Coastal GasLink pipeline opposition
- Business group blasts government inaction on Wet'suwet'en solidarity blockade near rail line
- Legal divide lies behind Wet'suwet'en pipeline protest, expert says
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More on Bison
- The Branches of Government
- About Canadian Inuit
- Metis Nation
- Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
- The British North America Act, 1867
- Indian Act
- Introduction to the Indian Act
- Indian Act and Elected Chief and Band Council System
- Truth & Reconciliation
- 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
- Indigenous peoples and communities
- The myth of band councils as First Nations
- The myth of the corrupt chief and band council (Part I)
- Wait, aren’t Chiefs and Councils traditional Indigenous governance?
- Tribal Councils Location
- The Stó:lō Nation
- Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
- Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council
- Tsimshian First Nations Treaty Society
- Modern Treaties
- Indigenous leaders, protesters gather in Vancouver to oppose Trans Mountain pipeline
- Welcome to the First Nation Profiles Interactive Map
- 1987 Constitutional Accord
- Native leader Elijah Harper helped scuttle Meech Lake
- Meech Lake Accord fails
- Canada 150: When a man with an eagle feather thwarted the high and mighty
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- British Columbia Assembly of First Nations
- Chiefs of Ontario
- Governance
- 'It's a symbol of our strength': Heiltsuk open first Big House in 120 years
- Anishinaabe Governance
- Wet'suwet'en: What's the difference between the elected band council and hereditary chiefs?
- Band councils are not "First Nations"
- The Wet'suwet'en, Aboriginal Title, and the Rule of Law
- The rule of law cuts both ways. Some Coastal GasLink protesters are ignoring that
- A pipeline through historically native land has sparked protests
- Trans Mountain pipeline: Why some First Nations want to stop it — and others want to own it
- 43 Indigenous Groups Have Signed Agreements in Support of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project
- We are Wet'suwet'en and the Coastal GasLink pipeline protesters do not represent us
- Coastal GasLink signs agreements with 100 per cent of B.C. elected Indigenous bands along the pipeline route
- Art can make science easier to remember
- What Does 'Cultural Appropriation' Actually Mean?
- Performer banned over dreadlocks asks both sides of divisive debate to stay rational
- Canadian journalists support ‘appropriation prize’ after online furore
- Canada Council for the Arts confronts cultural appropriation in 'post-Truth and Reconciliation era'
- Artwork on custom hockey mask accused of cultural appropriation, Canucks goalie apologizes
- Here's how Joseph Boyden reinforced systemic oppression of First Nations
- What you need to know about the cultural appropriation debate
- Opinion piece triggers heated debate over cultural appropriation
- Indigenous Cultural Police and Joseph Boyden
- How some people are missing the point on cultural appropriation
- A breakdown of the thorny issues involved in the cultural appropriation debate
- Canada's war over “cultural appropriation”
- Who decides which culture is appropriate?
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- Beyond Polarity
- Reframing Indigenous stories in joy
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- We all have a responsibility for Reconciliation
- Economic reconciliation: Supporting a return to Indigenous Prosperity
- Reconciliation: A movement of hope or a movement of guilt?
- Truth and reconciliation again? How to move out of shame and into accountability
- Comforting ourselves to death
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- The march to reconciliation trips over a pipeline
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- Powers of hereditary chiefs test many First Nations
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- What is the Triple Planetary Crisis?
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- Okanagan Nation
- Storytelling That Drives Bold Change
- Cancelled: can liberal democracy survive the culture wars?
- Indigenous Peoples are all the same, right?
- Have We Lost the Art of Nuance to Social Media?
- Indigenous Diversities: Each Nation Is Different
- Can Canada Handle a Rational, Polite and Fact-Based Debate About Immigration?
- Canada’s welcoming attitude toward immigrants is at risk of fraying
- How to debate immigration issues in Canada
- Work skills must be central to Canadian immigration efforts
- Canada identifies international students as ‘ideal immigrants’ but supports are lacking
- Radical right in Canada and their views on immigration
- It's not racist or xenophobic to question our immigration policy
- Fraser Basin Council
- Rivershed Profile: Brock Endean—Building community along the river
- Pacific Salmon Foundation
- Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
- Indigenuity Consulting Group Inc.
- The environment is Canada’s biggest wedge issue
- Dr. Leroy Little Bear
- Blackfoot Confederacy
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
- In their words: Canadians' experiences of racism
- After a 2-year dip, experts say bullying's increasing — and its harms can be long-lasting
- The Simpwc
- Bison
- More on UNDRIP
- Canada reintroduces bison to Banff national park after more than a century
- More bison return to traditional prairie lands
- Indigenous-led bison repopulation projects are helping the animal thrive again in Alberta
- Jagged Worldviews Colliding
- The fear of losing culture
- “Cultural insecurity as the main root cause of populism”
- Global Oil Demand to Reach Its Peak This Decade, IEA Says
- What's killing rural Canada
- Quebec is more than just a 'distinct society'
- Smaller share of Quebec households speaking French regularly, census data shows
- Quebec frets about its French language, culture
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- Almost 30000 Species Are Closer To Extinction: New Report
- Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction
- Biodiversity at risk, threatens human survival, UN forum hears
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
- Delivering on Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action
- Indigenous Peoples and the nature they protect
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommends environmental stewardship and protection of our natural resources
- UNDRIP
- Backgrounder: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
- British Columbia becomes 1st Canadian province to pass UN Indigenous rights declaration
- City of Vancouver’s UNDRIP Strategy
- Trudeau government bill may grant First Nations veto power over pipelines and other projects
- UN declaration doesn't give Canadian First Nations a veto: minister
- Mamakwa: ‘We cannot have reconciliation without truth’