Urban Aboriginal Migration

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The reading that resonated most with me was the article about Winnipeg’s Spence neighborhood. This article was about an inner city neighborhood in Winnipeg. A team of people set out to talk to Aboriginal residents of the community about the community development and community association. What they found was that many of the First Nations people residing in the neighborhood did not know about the community association at all. There was a lack of culture and diversity within the neighborhood, making First Nations people feel uncomfortable in their own communities. According to Silver, Ghorayshi, Hay, & Klyne (2006), “In a recent study the Canada West Foundation observed that urban Aboriginal transition programs receive less than 5 cents for

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