Packet 4: Bonus 17

One of these documents was invoked in 2020 for its “medicine chest clause” promising the right to health. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these eleven documents signed by First Nations from 1871 to 1921 ceding most land from the Rockies to the Great Lakes in exchange for rights and resources. Verbal “outside promises” supplement these documents.
ANSWER: Numbered Treaties [or Post-Confederation Treaties]
[10e] Canada signed the Numbered Treaties partly to acquire land for one of these projects named for the Canadian Pacific. John A. Macdonald resigned after a scandal involving one of these projects.
ANSWER: railroad [or railway; accept Canadian Pacific Railway; accept transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway]
[10m] A Constitution Act passed in this decade “recognized and affirmed” the often violated treaty rights of “aboriginal peoples.” Elijah Harper, who was born on a Treaty 5 reserve, prevented the Meech Lake Accord in this decade.
ANSWER: 1980s
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