Australian Aboriginal kinship

the source also addresses the issue of segregation Aboriginal people experienced from Canadian society and its civic nation. The source highlights how citizens are unable to recognize that Aboriginal people already lost their country. As a result of The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Canadian government taking away their land. The citizen reading the newspaper represents Canadian society and exhibits Canada to be ethnocentric towards Aboriginal culture. The type of nationalism reflected upon the…

I will be giving a brief summary of Curve lake first nation; Curve Lake First Nation people are the Mississaugas of the great Anishnaabeg nation. The traditional language spoken by the Anishnaabeg was Anishinaabemowin. The name Anishnaabeg a name made from two parts. The first part of anishaw, which means “spontaneous”. The second part inauawese, which means “human-body”. This together translates to mean “spontaneous man”. The Anishnaabeg did not use a written alphabet. All teaching was done…

Indian act philosophy encourage aboriginal people to live their Indian status and culture and to become member of Canadian society (Makarenko, 2008, p.8). The term Indian refers to the men with the Indian blood, child of such person, women who was married to such person (Makarenko, 2008, p.10). It also broader the enfranchisement system, in which “aboriginal lose their Indian status and gain full citizenship” (Makarenko, 2008, p.10). Women who married to non-aboriginal men is also a part of…

Aboriginal peoples have a prolonged history which includes spiritual and cultural traditions. Most of which were taken away upon the arrival of European settlers. Many of the issues that the Europeans brought on are still influential today. The forced introduction of European cultures and values and the dispossession of aboriginal lands caused a period of spiritual, social, and physical destruction. The aboriginal peoples have been discriminated and have been segregated from others due to coming…

Canadian soil, we have been interacting with aboriginal people. A lot has changed in how we treat these Native Americans since the 16th century, but it wasn’t until recently that they were even considered persons. The Indian Act has shown that Canada has tried to bridge relations with the aboriginal people, but it has not been effective due to misreading and the unknown desires of the aboriginal people, resident schools, used to abduct and condition aboriginal children to be Christian white…

In 1969, Pierre Trudeau’s government released the White Paper, indicating plans to transfer responsibility of Aboriginal affairs to the provincial governments, dissolve the Department of Indian Affairs, repeal the Indian Act, and terminate the Numbered Treaties (Uribe, 2006). The White Paper was part of Trudeau’s “Just Society” effort to repeal legislation that discriminated…

I am not so sure if my family was affected by any historic events but I feel it is really important to learn historical contexts so you are aware of what's happening all around the world. It is also important to learn historical context because it doesn't matter if it happened 100 years, it still happens to us and our people. And so the past is never repeated. Colonization is the process of taking control over the indigenous people in an area. In order to colonize the Indian act has formed. This…

Around 1870 the first residential schools opened forging Canada’s dark history. Aboriginal children were removed from their families and homes when the residentials schools had opened. They were funded under the authority of the Government of Canada. The purpose of these residentials schools was to remove and isolate children from their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture. At least 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were…

between Canadians and Aboriginal Canadians are not completely the same. There are many differences from family all the way to entertainment. In the following paragraphs I will compare my life to an average aboriginal person’s life. One of the most important parts of life is family. There are five people in my family including me, my mom and dad, my little brother and my older sister. My family compared to an Aboriginal Canadian family is a huge difference. In an average aboriginal family there…

has often been surrounded with much stigma that has stemmed from the disdained treatment that the Aboriginal people received from the first English “settlers” in 1788. The vast difference between these two cultures has led to a conflict filled chapter of Australian history that is often over looked. These divided cultures created two very different…