Chapter 4 Vocabulary: Collective Rights

Vocabulary: the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons.

Affirm: to state or assert positively; maintain as true.

Collective Identity:  An individuals' sense of belonging to a group.

Collective Rights: Rights guaranteed to specific groups in Canada society for historical and constitutional reasons.


First Nations: The umbrella name for the diverse Aboriginal poeples who have collective rights that are recognized and protected in Canada's constitution.


Sovereignty: rightful status, independence, or prerogative.


Annuity:

a specified income payable at stated intervals for a fixed or a contingent period, often for the recipient's life, in consideration of a stipulated premium paid either in prior installment payments or in a single payment.

Officail Language Minority:

 speaking an official language in an area where it is a minority
 

Anglophone: an English-speaking person, especially a native speaker of English.

Fracophones: speaking French, especially as a member of a French-speaking population.

Assimilate
-become part of a different cultural group

Entrench (ed)
-fixing firmly within

Indian
-european word for first nations

Reserves
-land for the exclusive use of first nations

Autonomy
-authority to make decisions

Land Claims
-legal control over a specific area of land

Settlement
-an agreement signed after labor negotiations between union and management

Collective
-a group of something

Ethnocentrism
-the belief that one culture is superior to all other cultures

Official Language Minority
-speaking an official language in an area where it is a minority

Official Language Community
-one of the groups in Canadian society whose members speak an official language of Canada

Publically Funded
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Script
-a manuscript or document