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Rank the top 3 most significant cards — then defend your ranking.

If you were an Indigenous leader at the time, which card would you resist most strongly?

Which card shows the most harmful long-term impact? Why?

From the perspective of an Elder today, which card’s impacts are still felt?

Imagine you are a settler in the 1880s: which card would you support most, and why?

Which card had the biggest immediate effect on Indigenous communities?

Which card would you argue is the most significant overall for Canadian history, not just Indigenous history?

From the perspective of a government official, which card would feel “necessary”?

Imagine you are a child in a residential school: which card would shape your life most?

Which card best shows that the Indian Act was about identity control rather than land or resources?

Which card would be the hardest to defend today?

If you had to remove one card from the Indian Act, which would it be and why?

Which card most clearly shows the government’s view of power?

Could any of these cards be justified at the time? Why or why not?

Which card shows the clearest example of assimilation? Of control? Of erasure?

Which card raises the biggest ethical dilemma for you personally?

Which card do you think has had lasting intergenerational impacts?