Aboriginal peoples in Canada

society. However, after taking a closer look at Canada’s history, it is evident that Canadian society has a deep rooted history of prejudice, discrimination, and racism. Hundreds of years of systematic and institutional racism have been overlooked as Canada has developed multiculturally. It is evident that hate and intolerance in Canadian society are defined by social and legal marginalization and political turmoils throughout history. Institutional racism is defined as prejudice and…

Canada is home to 11 Indigenous language families with over 60 unique dialects spoken, all of which are considered to be critically endangered. According to the United Nations 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…

Against Aboriginal People In Canada: The Fight Isn’t Over The lives of the Aboriginal people in Canada have never been the same since European settlers unjustifiably stole their native land right from under their feet. Life for Aboriginal people will always be affected by the European colonization of Canada, and discrimination against the first nations community still exists to this day. Canadian history is still impacting the Aboriginal population, including the missing and murdered…

misunderstandings regarding Aboriginal people that non Aboriginals seem to have built in their mind. These misconceptions are all based on stereotypes and the lack of information that non Aboriginals seem to possess about aboriginals. All these misunderstandings are what shape our modern day society, as well as our relationship with the Aboriginal people. Some of the myths that non Aboriginals seem to think are that that all Aboriginals: get free tuition, don’t pay taxes, and that Aboriginal…

government wants the First Nations schools provide the same level of education as the provincial schools. So the First Nations schools can’t provide the education support and problems that students need to succeed. The AANDC (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, Canada) shouldn’t brush distributional issues under the rug, the problems of different types of funding should be solved, or First Nations schools will always fall behind their provincial counterpart. This article provides some…

Statistics Canada reports that in 2017, the predicted life expectancy for the total Canadian population is projected to be 79 years for men and 83 years for women. Among the Aboriginal Population, the Inuit have the lowest life expectancy of 64 years for men and 73 years for women. Metis and First Nations people have a life expectancy of 73-74 years for men and 78-80 years for women.( 2015-11-30) There is a fifteen to five years life expectancy in male and ten to three years life expectancy for…

to make Canada a better place. The Government of Canada thought that the residential schools would help the Native families, but the way the children were treated and kept at the schools the Aboriginal culture is still suffering from the violence and abuse. Aboriginal parents don’t know how to treat their children because of their experience from Residential Schools; the violence was passed on through the generation and is still being passed on. There are many homeless Aboriginal people on the…

In the 1880s, the Government of Canada began to establish the Indian Residential School (IRS) system. This was the government’s bid to provide education according to treaty promises. The IRS progressed slowly at the beginning. However, under the Indian Act of in 1920, it became mandatory for every Indian child to attend a residential school and made it illegal for them to attend any other educational institution. Authorities would frequently take children to schools far from their home…

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…

and learn valuable lessons from our previous mistakes. Canada began allowing immigration for refugees after discovering the repercussions of Canada’s refusal to admit Jewish refugees on SS Louis led them be slaughtered in one of the most gruesome massacres committed in the Second World War, the Holocaust. Canada allowed families from Rwanda, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and many others countries to settle here. On top of this, in 1990s,2 Canada admitted hundreds of refugees from former Yugoslavia…