Tutor-marked Exercise 2

Tutor-marked Exercise 2 is designed to examine your understanding of concepts and terms discussed in Unit 2. When you have completed this written assignment, send it to your tutor for evaluation and comments. Your answers to the following questions should show evidence that you have understood the issues discussed by the authors whose articles you have read.

You must answer Questions 1 and 2; in addition, you must answer three (3) of Questions 3, 4, 5, and 6. Note that your answers for each of Questions 2-6 should not exceed two pages in length.

1. Explain, using examples, what is meant by each of the following terms. (5 marks each)
   • welfare state
   • living off the land
   • Aboriginal elder
   • Aboriginal dual economy
   • Aboriginal concept of land
2. The oil and gas companies and pipeline companies insist that large-scale industrial operations undertaken in the Canadian North will be beneficial for the Aboriginal residents. Such industrial activities, they argue, are likely to reduce unemployment, welfare dependence, crime, violence, and drug and alcohol abuse. Aboriginal northerners vehemently disagree with this assertion. Discuss why Aboriginal people reject the idea that large-scale industrial development projects (e.g., pipeline projects) are means through which they can address their social and economic problems. (15 marks)
3. Why are many northern Aboriginal people resolved to live off the land rather than on wages from employment obtainable in the semi-urban centres? (20 marks)
4. The Dene and the Inuit are described as the sharing peoples. Using specific examples, explain how these people practise sharing. (20 marks)
5. The growth of industries based on non-renewable resources has created an economic imbalance in the communities of the Canadian North. In what ways has this economic imbalance affected Aboriginal peoples' ways of life? (20 marks)
6. In his report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Hearings, Justice Thomas Berger notes that many people in southern Canada assume that the establishment of permanent settlements means that Aboriginal northerners no longer use much of their land base. What evidence did the Berger Inquiry gather that challenges this assumption? (20 marks)