Among Indians the most prominent group of health problems in terms of mortality and morbidity is accidents and violence. In the late 1840’s the first of the Canadian Residential Schools were opened. The schools were opened with the primary intention to civilize Indigenous children as well as convert them to Christianity. The Canadian government thought of the residential schools as a way to assimilate Aboriginals into Canadian society. Aboriginal children ages 4-16 were taken from their…
other Native groups who were here before any Frenchman, Briton, or even Spaniard arrived here. Throughout our rich history, we have seen health and disease, wealth and poverty, prejudice and impartiality; all this could define the life of the Plains Indians, as well as the life of our aboriginal brothers and sisters. This is the story of…
18th, 2024 When Schools Take More Than They Give There should never be unmarked graves of children on school grounds. Yet a large number of residential schools have just that. Residential schools were segregated education institutes for indigenous children. These schools were abusive and have left a long-lasting negative impact on the Native American community. The kids affected by these institutes who survived, grew up with trauma from their time suffered at their respective school that…
called ‘How to become a Canadian Citizen’. The aspect of our social life that this clip reveals is the fact that Russel’s dad, an immigrant from India, still feels the need to assimilate into Canadian society despite being a Canadian citizen. Due to the fact they traveled from another country, Russel Peter’s parents still felt like outsiders despite being in Canada for a large part of their lives. Another aspect of our social life that this video clip reveals is that Indians are born to be…
One reason as to why post colonial rule is still affecting Aboriginal society is by observing the residential school system which continues to have tremendous negative effects on Aboriginal society. To understand how the residential school system has affected today’s Aboriginal society we must observe the harsh conditions many Aboriginal children experienced while in residential schools and link that to why crime rates and incarceration is higher in Aboriginal society then in the rest of Canada.…
between non-native Canadians and themselves. Native people have been pushed down in their resistance to stop assimilation for so long that it has come to the point where they either must submit and change their culture or live a life of poverty. Anything they try and do to break out of this cycle generally ends in the same way:“Any resistance is met with the threat of arrest by the police. Your not sure where your children are going….You’re…
The Aboriginal Crisis: This is not a party problem; this is a Canadian problem Lack of health care, widespread poverty, employment barriers, high suicide rates, drug abuse, segregation, and lack of drinkable water. These are conditions commonly used to describe developing countries, yet they describe a majority of Canada’s Aboriginal reserves. For a country who have cities on several, notable “Most Livable” lists, these conditions seem foreign. Varying political parties have tried to blame…
between the Canadian government and Indigenous peoples, implying much of what he is trying to convey with the title of the collection. Each piece is interconnected and has some relevance to the story of Indigenous culture and its survival of the state’s attempts to assimilate or destroy the history and ways of life of the many Indigenous groups within what is now considered Canadian borders. The discourse that surrounds this narrative is one which has begun to bubble up more in popular Canadian…
He apologized for the role of the government in the residential schools. In the apology, Harper recognized that the residential schools were wrong, harmful and damaging to the students. Liberal leader, Stéphane Dion, NDP leader, Jack Layton and Bloc Québecois leader, Gilles Duceppe also made statements apologizing for the residential schools. The aboriginal community accepted the apology through speeches from former students. The government will fund a Commemoration initiative with a total of…
including the Black Canadians and Aboriginal people, encountered discrimination and exclusion from the recruiting stations of Canadian army. Although many of their rights were deprived and were restricted from joining the Canadian Armies, their notable contributions and the willingness to fight for the country that impacted Canada during the First World War could not be undervalued. In August 1914, as Great Britain declared war on Germany, Canada was then legally…