Aboriginal Children In Canada Essay

youth and children. Tiet et al. (2001) states that a higher IQ benefits youth with coping with adverse life events because they are more likely to critically think and problem solve. These children and youth are better at equipped with using their experience to positively shift their mental thinking (Tiet et al., 2001). Youth with higher IQ are able to think more independently, rather than thinking what their parents believe (Tiet et al., 2001). Tiet et al. (2001) also argues that children who…

Last evening, I attended the film Trick or Treat by Alanis Obomsawin. It was a beautifully done film about the issues first nations face in Canada. The film mostly revolved around the controversial Treaty No. 9 signed in 1905, which essentially stole the land from native communities without fully telling them that is what the document would do. Native communities were instead told that the treaty was one of peace and unity, not one of ownership. They were told one thing to get their signatures…

result of these searches, the area now known as Canada along with the rest of North and South America was settled by Europeans, with the British and the French settling in Canada. However, the British and the French were not the first people to settle in Canada. Prior to them, several groups of people, referred to today as Aboriginals, Native Americans, First Nations, or Indigenous people, lived in the area. With the arrival of the Europeans, the Aboriginals were treated poorly in many ways,…

years, Indigenous children were forced to go to residential schools, most of the schools were hundred miles from their home and they suffered physical and sexual abuse there. Most of the Indigenous people addicted to drugs and alcohol in order to get rid of the horrible memories and this habit affected several generations. Nowadays, many Indigenous people suffer the discrimination and poor living conditions. With the help from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, their living…

adequate housing remains an inaccessible right for millions of aboriginals worldwide. Access to one’s standard living is a human right. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to housing. Considering the fact, that certain equalities stand in between; making equality harder to achieve. For one, ethnicity matters the most for standards of living.Specifically speaking, Canada lacks access to housing for aboriginals and almost, 52.6 % aboriginals are forced/willingly live on reserves with…

Canada advances as one of the most powerful nations thriving in equality. The federal government announced that it will assist Afghanistan in creating a more peaceful environment for the Afghan people. However, as Canada embraces international challenges, struggles remain within the peaceful nation. First Nation Chief Phil Fontaine’s criticism of the federal budget brings back the light of a hidden issue of the Canadian government: the Canadian Colonial oppression of the Aboriginal people. He…

have stayed the same in the way of fear causing the ethnic cleansing. I think the Canadian Government felt threatened by aboriginals because they knew all about the environment and very resourceful. In addition, Canada couldn't understand the Aboriginals and couldn't tell if they were for them or against them so they put them into residential schools to control the Aboriginals and not use their resourcefulness to their advantage instead be the bums of the Canadian society. The thing that has…

The title of the secondary source is called The Genocide Question and Indian Residential Schools in Canada and the authors of the article are David B. MacDonald and Graham Hudson. The main point of this article is to question whether residential schools were a form of genocide towards Indigenous peoples of Canada. The United Nations Genocide Committee’s is used to interpret claims of genocide. This article looks at the different interpretations of the term genocide. The article then takes those…

traumatizing events that had taken place during their times at residential schools, the films "We Were Children" and "Unrepentant" express the short-term and long-term effects by the survivors. Many survivors admitted to drug and/or alcohol abuse, some even attempting suicide multiple times. The concept of residential schools has been a major issue in both enactments, where young Aboriginal children were forced out of their homes to live in schools administered by the government in conjugation…

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…