Aboriginal peoples in Canada

white people have special privileges in everyday life. On page 7 of the play, Johnny says, “I was on my corner. It’s not my usual corner. A couple of punks took it over a while ago. They don’t let me sit there anymore. They have really bad attitudes” (Taylor 7). This quote shows how white people rudely drive Johnny away from the corner and no one stands out to defend for her. It reveals that in the Canadian society, the whites have more…

Canadians (Historica Canada, 2014). In this video, it is evident that the heritage minute is telling the viewers that Canada was formed based on unity, courage, persistence, and strength. The video also shows that Sir John A. Macdonald used liquor to bribe the East Delegation. This could be controversial because it shows that our first Prime Minister used alcohol as a mechanism to win. The video however does not outline the fact that this land was already occupied by Aboriginal people. The…

Elijah Harper was the first Treaty Aboriginal to be a Member of The Legislative Assembly in Manitoba. He was in the Legislature between the years of 1981-1997. Elijah Harper’s career achievement was blocking the passing of The Meech Lake Accord. Elijah Harper was correct that the Meech Lake Accord deserved to be stopped. This is due to the fact that it was being voted on by people who had a conflict of interest. Secondly, it would have created an inequality of power between Quebec and the rest…

shown through the events in Up Ghost River, is the underlying factor that creates an environment where an imbalance between cultures is accepted and allowed in Canada. Native peoples are generally thought of as the subject of assimilation, however they also play a role in creating a gap between non-native Canadians and themselves. Native people have been pushed down in their resistance to stop assimilation for so long that it has come to the point where they either must submit and change their…

CONNECTION TO MINISTRY CURRICULUM This resource is very much relevant to the Ministry Curriculum / B.C.’s New Curriculum as well as the First Peoples Principles of Learning as previously described. The lessons and activities I have extracted from this resource will cater to grade 5 because it is a sensitive topic that suits a more mature grade level that can handle the details of the content and activities. I will outline a few curricular competencies and content objectives that link to the…

Monchalin Chapter Four Reading Reflection In chapter four of The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada, Monchalin addresses the presence of colonialism in the past as well as its presence today. Monchalin describes how various doctrines such as the Doctrine of Discovery were created as a means of establishing settler dominance over Indigenous communities. Multiple individuals, including Tomas Hobbs and John Locke developed theories that worked to justify…

The effects of residential schools are said to last for seven generations and healing will take as long. It is not possible for communities, families and nations to heal within a few years - however, healing has begun and will continue to grow. According to a study by the Assembly of First Nations, the individual healing process has a number of steps. One of the first steps is recognizing what has happened and what needs to change. Once we recognize the wrong that has been done, we…

government’s experiment to relocate Inuit from northern Quebec to Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord in the northern Arctic in 1953. However, while both sources recount the government’s experiment the narratives have different perspectives highlighting how people remember events in different ways depending on how they were affected by the outcome. Document 9.2 is a testimony given by Markoosie Patsauq and Samwillie Elijassialuk whose story describes the heartbreak, neglect and empty promises that the…

colonization and its impacts on Aboriginal peoples. Reconciliation needs to be addressed among educators of primary school and they must share the information of the federal and Provincial’s governments role in the history of genocide towards indigenous people, their culture, language and communities. Many children, cannot comprehend the effects of intergenerational trauma passed down from generations before. Nevertheless, it still needs to be addressed…

Does the capital punishment appropriate to prisoners, who are not ready for dying, are forced to execute to die in front of other prisoners (or other people) without giving a chance and caring their human rights and feelings? In the 1920s, the Southeast Asian country, Burma (now known as the country in Asia, Myanmar) was the part of the British Empire. The British controlled their new land, Burma through direct rules like the implementation of a secular education system, which "was given control…