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Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 5

Land Claims and Self-Government in Labrador

Agreements, rights and governments today.

What your child practises

Grade 9 explores land claim agreements, self-government and reconciliation in Newfoundland and Labrador. Ask your child how rights and responsibilities connect, and why each community’s story is its own.

Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum curriculum outcome: Citizenship, power and governance (by Grade 9) · land claims and self-government agreements in Labrador and Newfoundland, and what they mean today

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Where does the Nunatsiavut Assembly meet?

    • in Hopedale
    • in Ottawa
    • in Gander
    • in Conne River

  2. Question 2

    Why is it important to name each Indigenous nation separately?

    • It saves time
    • Each has its own history, language, rights and government
    • Names are not important
    • They are all the same

  3. Question 3

    How many Newfoundland and Labrador residential schools were covered by the 2017 apology?

    • twelve
    • twenty
    • one
    • five

  4. Question 4

    What is the Innu language called?

    • Gaelic
    • Innu-aimun
    • Mi’kmaw
    • Inuktitut

  5. Question 5

    Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 recognizes and affirms…

    • provincial borders
    • existing Aboriginal and treaty rights
    • hockey rules
    • the right to a driver’s licence

  6. Question 6

    In 2011, the Innu Nation, Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador signed an agreement-in-principle on what?

    • a railway
    • a new national anthem
    • a national park only
    • land claim and self-government

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