Canada’s fastest growing, discriminated race, unhappy with what they call home In CBC’s 8th Fire series; many aboriginals address the commonly known stereotypes and difficulties that they have been facing for a long period of time. It rises many mixed emotions for viewers but Canada is turning into a very diverse country and everyone is given equal opportunities if they strive for them. Long ago Aboriginals were given parcels of land called reserves for them specifically to live on. Under today’s government, first nation people are welcome to live wherever they choose.…
Canada disadvantaged Aboriginal people by creating the Indian Act (1876). Razack has many arguments that arise throughout the book, I will analyze and critique them in regards to the history of Canada, racial profiling and Indigenous peoples encounters with authority and the law (most police issues). History Canada is known for its many cultures, ethnics, and races…
Provincial and federal governments take advantage of and use unclaimed Aboriginal land, often ignoring legal standards. In 2014, the Supreme Court has enforced constitutional procedures the Canadian government must take relating to Aboriginal land claims in the Tsilhqot’ in Decision. This Precedent setting case will strengthen Aboriginal rights for protecting their traditional territories and bring about change within their communities. By analyzing the legal policies our government must abide by, as well as the implications of the precedent its self, we can see how it will benefit and create more rights to Aboriginals. The case through its decision will also indirectly bring about positive change within Aboriginal communities.…
Dale Turner makes the point that, “First Nations have a stronger right to autonomy than other minority cultures because they never sought to assimilate into Canadian culture” (This is Not a Peace Pipe, p. 10). Speaker Mark Podlasly expands Turner’s point by claiming 5% of indigenous people make up British Columbia’s population, and 51% of Aboriginal people are forced to live in urban cities throughout Canada due to the problem that 90% of them are unemployed. Turner shows that Aboriginal people have a right and priority to their land and Podlasly shows what has happened when they are not given it. Since aboriginal people rely on their territory for supplies such as fishing, hunting, and gathering, they are forced into poverty when the government builds on their land because they have nowhere…
Three different kinds of racial discrimination experienced by Canada’s Indigenous population are individual, institutional, and epistemic. To begin, individual discrimination refers to the behaviour of individual members of one race/ ethnic/gender group that is intended to have a differential and or harmful effect on the members of another race/ethnic/gender group (Pincus, 1994). It is an individual's racist assumptions, beliefs or behaviours and a form of racial discrimination that stems from the conscious and unconscious (Henry & Tator, 2006). For hundreds of years, the Indigenous community has endured acts of individual racism being viewed as savages, mentally inferior, abusive, violent, drunk, and untrustworthy. In Geddes book, he shares memories of Indigenous patients who faced this kind of discrimination in Indian hospitals across the country.…
Summary of the Book National Dreams by Francis Daniel Aboriginal people faced a lot of discrimination from the settlers from England who envisioned molding the new Dominion of Canada in the image of the Mother Nation. Slaves, Jews, Asian of any type and blacks did not have the need to apply for any membership. One group that mainly suffered from this ethnocentric view of the nation was the Aboriginals (Francis 70). Recent events have seen an interest in the traditional culture and history of the Native population of Canada such as Land claims and treaty rights, and with such developments, it is easy to forget how mainstream Euro- Canada was a generation ago when aboriginals were considered backward savages. Textbooks are not only an excellent…
Weinstein, 2003). Moreover, the text provides an excellent basis for educating equity within a class as it promotes participation for students to study the richness in Aboriginal culture (MCEETYA, 2008). Significantly, the text provides the realistic representations of modern-day racism that can enrich students’ understanding…
The existence of a socioeconomic gap between indigenous and non-indigenous people is quite obvious during that time (Scott, 2015). It is as if the members of societies all over Canada know, but choose to ignore it because they don’t lose anything. For example, “The United Nations Human Development Index has rated Canada sixth in terms of quality of life, but when you apply those same indexes to indigenous peoples, we're 63rd” (Scott, 2015). If indigenous and non-indigenous people are being provided with the same rights in…
In spite of Aboriginal veterans contributing greatly by giving money and volunteering to participate in the war battlefields of Europe, found their dedications and hard work were all in vain and did nothing to change their lifestyle. The Aboriginals still endured and faced the racism, poverty, and assimilation in Canada. They were still not considered as “persons’ under the law. They did not have the right to vote in provincial or federal elections. The government built residential schools for Aboriginal kids to replace their cultural traditions with the Christian culture.…
Aboriginal children and youth in Canada can be referred to as one of the most vulnerable populations of children in our society,…
The United Aboriginal Struggle “Get over it!” A statement that has been repeated time and time again, with regards to Indigenous land. It’s a surprise that Aboriginals want their land back after centuries of not owning it. Is it not? Well, no, it is not.…
Opinion Essay: Over-representation of Aboriginals as Offenders Amy Brown ID #201591413 Diversity and the Justice System – CRJS 1013-001 Professor Aulakh Harpreet Tuesday, February 3. 2015 In 2006, Statistics Canada found that 21% of people sentenced to custody and 18.5% in federal institutions were in fact of aboriginal descent (King & Winterdyk, 2010, p. 63). In a graph presented in the text by King and Winterdyk (2010), from Statistics Canada, the graph suggests the highest percent of over-representation of aboriginals were found in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Yukon (p. 64). This information given provides a hard truth in our country, and I believe it exists for several reasons. The reasons being that First Nations are being over-represented in the justice system is due to alcoholism, violence, and residential schools.…
Aboriginals represent 3% of the population but 27% of the nation’s jail population. This is outrageous as it shows that race plays a major role in people being incarcerated. This problem stems from the racial divide which is embedded in our society still today. Although we believe that we have gotten past the discrimination that the indigenous Australians face it is still a major problem facing Australian society.…
A demographic group that is living in severe poverty conditions would be the Aboriginals in Canada. Aboriginals carry a long history with Canada by being the earliest and first inhabitants of the country. They created their own traditions, social system and language in the unity of their group set in a peaceful place, however, their traditions “were altered or even taken away upon the arrival of European settlers” (Aboriginal Issues). They were suddenly disregarded and suppressed as their customs and lands were cruelly taken away from them. Furthermore, they were forced to move into reserved areas in isolation “[w]ith no planning, infrastructure or economy set up, Aboriginal people were restricted to small tracts of land” (Aboriginal Issues).…
Based off the history of indigenous peoples in Canada, one thing is for certain; discriminatory and inhumane acts by European conquest, towards a unique culture has altered the Aboriginal way of life we see in Canada today. While the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), has been evolving and developing for multiple years, these 94 recommendations give important insight and suggestions in how the nation of Canada can move away from this unjust history, reconcile and work towards becoming a stronger nation. While it may seem that reparations are impractical from the devastations of such events as the Indian residential schools, the TRC has been a timely process with the intent to restore an altered Aboriginal life and strengthen ties with…