Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 4
The Land Claims Agreement
How Inuit and Canada agreed to create Nunavut.
What your child practises
Covers the 1993 Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, the creation of the territory in 1999, and the roles of NTI and the wildlife and land boards. Present tense and light; it needs review by Inuit partners.
Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: Inuuqatigiit (NWT, 1996), Civics and economics · the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and the creation of Nunavut
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Who signed the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement for Canada?
- A school class
- A company only
- The United Nations only
- The Government of Canada
The Government of Canada
Hint: Canada was one of the parties.
Question 2
Before 1999, the land now called Nunavut belonged to which territory?
- Manitoba
- Alberta
- Northwest Territories
- Yukon
Northwest Territories
Hint: Nunavut was formed from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
Question 3
Inuit-owned lands are lands that…
- Are only water
- No one owns
- Inuit own under the agreement
- Belong to tourists
Inuit own under the agreement
Hint: The agreement gave Inuit title to some lands.
Question 4
Which board looks at how projects like mines might affect the environment and people?
- Nunavut Boat Board
- Nunavut Impact Review Board
- Nunavut Garden Board
- Nunavut Music Board
Nunavut Impact Review Board
Hint: Impact means effect.
Question 5
What is a land claim?
- A kind of fishing net
- A story about the sea
- A map of the sky
- An agreement about who has rights to land and its resources
An agreement about who has rights to land and its resources
Hint: It is about land rights.
Question 6
After the agreement, who elects the people who make Nunavut's laws?
- Only the Prime Minister
- Only one group
- Only Elders
- All adult residents who vote
All adult residents who vote
Hint: Nunavut has a public government.