The Importance Of Education In The Aboriginal Community

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The Aboriginals living in the remote communities’ problem with food insecurity roots from the very day European settlers set foot on Canadian land. The colonizers denied Aboriginals access to traditional food and stripped away their control over their land and resources using the Indian Act (Justice Laws, 2016). As a result, Aboriginals now rely on the market goods since access to traditional food is very limited (Socha, Zahaf, Chambers, Abraham, & Fiddler, 2012, p. 6). Aboriginals are also known for living with low socioeconomic status, which is correlated to unemployment and poor education (Stamler, Yiu, & Dosani, 2016, p. 405). These degree of isolation, financial barriers and lack of sufficient education are the main reason as to why

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