Assignment title: Information
1. What are the three types of drinking water advisories? According to research/media/First
Nations, what are the main reasons that so many First Nations are under drinking water
advisories? (1%) (You will need to look further than the handout given in class on
January 21st for the answer to this question. The handout is online at http://www.hc-
sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/promotion/public-publique/water-dwa-eau-aqep-eng.php#a1 ).
2. What is the meaning of the Anishinabe ethic of "non-interference"? Please explain and
give an example of behaviour. (1%)
3. In one lecture, stereotypes of Anishinabe people were discussed. A stereotype is "a
widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or
thing. Stereotypes generalize groups of people in manners that lead to discrimination and
ignore the diversity within groups." In January 28th class, the stereotypes of "savage"
and "Noble Redman" were presented and discussed. Give one example of how each of
these racial stereotypes continue to be held/expressed against Anishinabe people in
Canada today, and discuss how these stereotypes are wrong. (2%)
4. What were the European childhood diseases that became epidemics in Anishinabe
homelands in what is now Canada because people had no immunity to these pathogens?
Name at least 5 different diseases responsible for Anishinabe population decline during
earlier stages of the colonization process. (1%)