Aboriginal People Essay

Christianized the aborigines and assimilate them into mainstream society. The government believed that their responsibility educated the aboriginal children for adopting white lifestyles. They compulsorily disunite the children from their indigenous families and sent them into residential schools. The Schools made many dehumanized actions towards aboriginal people that acts were extremely painful to many of the Canadian First Nations. The inhumane treatment demonstrated in the CBC news, “For…

was aimed at assimilating First Nations people. - In 1884 school attendance became mandatory by law for Indians less than 16 years of age. - Students were forced to live on school premises. - When the government changed the Indian Act in the 1940s, some of the Indian bands, along with national native organizations wanted residential schools to stay open. - In 1998, the government made a Statement of Reconciliation this including an apology to those people who were raped and physically abused…

history” (1). The Indian Act of 1876 essentially passed guardianship of Aboriginal children to the Government of Canada, causing the education of these children to be the responsibility of the government. These Indian Residential Schools were created with the primary aim of assimilating Aboriginal children into “dominant culture” (Harper, 1). In 2008, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a formal apology to the Aboriginal peoples of Canada, using language indicating time to great effect.…

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, including being removed from their land in order to make room for settlers. To add insult to…

as to why post colonial rule is still affecting Aboriginal society is by observing the residential school system which continues to have tremendous negative effects on Aboriginal society. To understand how the residential school system has affected today’s Aboriginal society we must observe the harsh conditions many Aboriginal children experienced while in residential schools and link that to why crime rates and incarceration is higher in Aboriginal society then in the rest of Canada. The…

lives of many Aboriginal People and it is crucial that all people understand and are educated about this piece of history. Since residential schools were the engines of cultural genocide, understanding them is the key to gaining perspective into and fixing many contemporary Aboriginal issues. If all people are not educated on residential schools, there will continue to be a burden on Aboriginal communities and discrimination over contemporary issues that many Aboriginal societies and people…

schools in a variety of settings and to conclude, I will talk about how we can all be a part of reconciliation and why is it important for all Canadians to have a role. My thesis is that First Nations residential schools touched so many First Nations people in such a negative way and which continues to harm generations that have followed the residential school survivors, that to get reconciliation correct gives First Nations…

residential schools as a way to assimilate Aboriginals into Canadian society. Aboriginal children ages 4-16 were taken from their communities, homes, and families and relocated to these schools. Although some children traveled to these schools with relatives such as siblings and cousins they were kept separate from them once they arrived. The schools worked on a half day system were…

Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Aboriginal language families in Canada “are among the most endangered in the world” (as cited in “Language and culture”). In Canada, the establishment of residential schools began in the 1870s to “Christianize and civilize” Aboriginal children (Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, 2014; Partridge, 2010, p. 46). There were over 130 residential schools present, and more than 150,000 Aboriginal children forced into these…

The New Life of Aboriginal Children Aboriginal children can not forget what happened in the past. In the 1870s, above 150 000 aboriginal children took from their parents to attend Canada’s Indian Residential Schools to learn them the culture of European and learn them reading, writing, and math (CBC News,2010, p.49). Unfortunately, aboriginal parents have not choice, even if they want to send their children to school or not (CBC News,2010, p.49). Because of Indian agents who make sure…