Aboriginal peoples in Canada

The residential school system in Canada was a joint initiative between the Canadian Government and the broader Christian Church. The Canadian government involved itself in residential schools to further exert their power over the Indigenous population. As government-funded “institutionalized instruments of control” (Steckley 310, 2017), residential schools can be understood within the context of Erving Goffman’s definition of a total institution. This definition is applicable as Indigenous…

and Murdered Aboriginal Women: Why is the Government Not Taking Action? For generations, First Nations people have been put through many physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally damaging trials that have left, as said by Kappo, “life and death consequences of violence, self-violence, community violence, societal violence, and systemic violence” throughout Canada (paragraph 5). Many people have had to suffer due to the actions of the government toward the First Nations people. The…

Dating back to Aboriginal history, education systems have not been the ideal structure of learning for students. Integrating children from reserves into nearby public and residential schools take away from their culture. Having gone through discrimination and racism in the classroom setting, Stephen Harper, in 2008, apologized for the Indian Residential School system (Statement of Apology, 2010). Consequently, an education act was made effective to build a new foundation for Aboriginal education…

residential schools truth and reconciliation commission which started its work to achieve an official order of reviewing the history of Canada’s Indian residential schools. The Canadian residential school system is, a system created for aboriginal people in Canada, to achieve the best chance for success by learning the English language and more importantly assimilating to Canadian culture therefore, passing it down to their children in hopes of native traditions to diminish. The Canadian…

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…

Canada must help alleviate problems faced by First Nations Greetings, classmates, teachers, fellow Canadians, We have gathered here to discuss how our society has caused many problems that Canada’s Natives face today, such as destroyed lives, endangered cultures and languages, unforeseeable economic future on reserves, and how it silently neglects and lets them struggle in those problems. Canadian history is a great example how we grow as a nation and learn valuable lessons from our previous…

Residential schools have caused irreparable damages throughout the generations of First Nations people and families. Today, the children and grandchildren of residential school survivors suffer the consequences of what their past generations went through. Its effects have manifested in self-abuse, resulting in high rates of substance abuse, alcoholism, and suicide. Among First Nations people aged 10 to 45, suicide and self-injury is the top cause of death, responsible for 40 percent of…

that was happened with Indigenous peoples when the European colonizers deliberately and forcefully separated Indigenous children from their parents to take the savage out from them and to transform them into civilized individuals, completely negating their cultural influence on them . Residential schools were the product of the hidden cultural bias of the Western educational system, and this bias was exposed when approximately 100,000 Indigenous children in Canada, from 1860 to 1996 were…

of the Royal Proclamation in relation to aboriginals, the Métis people were subject to a large issue: the fact that they were not considered in the Proclamation at all. They were not considered aboriginals, even though their origin says otherwise. This led to many battles and hardship as the Métis tried to fight for their political and legal rights, and largely their land rights as Aboriginals. Métis Nations developed in the 1800s as the Aboriginal people that reside in the Historic Métis Nation…

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…