Aboriginal People Essay

Aboriginal Youth, the Criminal Justice System, and the Evolution into a Better Canada In a country where our education, laws, and overall societal structures are based on a colonial perspective, Harold Johnson offers an Aboriginal outlook on how First Nations people have lived and struggled under a colonialist Canada. In his book Two Families: Treaties and Government, Johnson examines several issues faced by Aboriginal people today and how a colonial system still contributes to the despair of…

the source also addresses the issue of segregation Aboriginal people experienced from Canadian society and its civic nation. The source highlights how citizens are unable to recognize that Aboriginal people already lost their country. As a result of The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Canadian government taking away their land. The citizen reading the newspaper represents Canadian society and exhibits Canada to be ethnocentric towards Aboriginal culture. The type of nationalism reflected upon the…

Aboriginal peoples have a prolonged history which includes spiritual and cultural traditions. Most of which were taken away upon the arrival of European settlers. Many of the issues that the Europeans brought on are still influential today. The forced introduction of European cultures and values and the dispossession of aboriginal lands caused a period of spiritual, social, and physical destruction. The aboriginal peoples have been discriminated and have been segregated from others due to coming…

Canadian history has been dominated by what I classify as segregationist theory. Said theory is twofold comprising of segregation, “the practice or policy of keeping people of different races separate from each other” (Mariam-Webster),1 However, segregationist theory is coupled with a desire to assimilate those segregated people. This form of segregation is comprised of intrusive excessive segregation including political, social, economic, cultural, and geographical segregation with the intent…

What I have learned throughout the course is that the foundation of all Aboriginal traditions, societal practices, and customs are the various Aboriginal languages and knowledge. Despite the constitutional reform in Canadian society, Aboriginal languages and knowledge are not yet blossoming in our current education systems. Canadian education systems have not been able to empower Aboriginal language and traditions; instead, they are largely excluded in most Canadian educational systems, although…

Mackellar’s poem “My Country”, she shares her admiration for Australia’s beauty and danger, landscape/geographical features and her personal relationship with the land. On the contrary, Oodgeroo Noonuccal the poet of “We Are Going”, writes the poem in an Aboriginal perspective and shares about Australia’s historically tragic past, indigenous…

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…

Both Canadian and Australian had a period dark history that about the first nation, which is aboriginal people. In the 19s century and 20s century, the government established the residential school for the first nation’s children to learn the European culture. This decision has changed many aboriginal children’s whole life; it almost kill a few generation. It is clear to see it bring first nation’s people a huge damage. At the first, when European settlements immigrated to Canada, they thought…

Introduction For decades, Aboriginal individuals have and continue to face a number of challenges due to their race and spiritual beliefs (Monchalin, 2010). In the movie Smoke Signals directed by Chris Eyre, the characters portray the modernized stereotypes Native Americans experience daily. Eyre takes an interesting take on the movie providing vivid flashbacks of the main characters’ past, allowing the audience to get a sense of what life was like for them growing up (Eyre, Alexie, Bressler,…

all, on the reserves, the First Nations people are separated from the rest of Canada and are not able to practice their culture outside of it. In the rest of Canada, however, people are able to practice their own cultures and religions freely without restrictions. This means that Aboriginal people are denied their freedoms and rights, which is not what Canada does to any other citizen that are not native. Furthermore, the Residential Schools that Aboriginals living on reserves are forced to go…