Cree

Canada's First Nation (FN) on-reserve housing now is in crisis level due to severe shortages, lack of proper ventilation, presence of mold contamination, overcrowding and structural deficiencies (CBC, 2011; MacTavish et.al, 2012; Canadian Press, 2016). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) defined access of proper housing is the third most important basic human needs. "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family,…

Furthermore, the loss of identity that occurs in war allows people to no longer be themselves leading to uncivilized behaviour and overall malicious behaviour. Xavier, the main character, becomes unrecognizable after the war to the point where he becomes a different person. When Niska first see him come off of the train from Toronto, he looks like “he is an old man […] so skinny. This cannot be Elijah […] one leg of his pants is pinned up and hangs down a little of the way, empty” (6). Xavier…

that year was only fifteen percent (Minore). Surprisingly, the numbers show that suicide rates are higher among teenage females in the locations closer to non-Indians. Minore quotes in Looking in, looking out: coping with adolescent suicide in the Cree and Ojibway communities of northern Ontario, “The southernmost communities show the highest rates of suicide and have also been the most affected through contact with non-Indians. The more remote northern communities, and especially those that…

Citing several primary sources and focusing on the Native American tribes that inhabited the central plains and Rocky Mountains of present day United States and the St. Lawrence River Valley of Canada. In 1787 Saukamappee a Cree Indian, was interviewed by David Thompson and he describes life prior to their acquisition of horses, guns, and European diseases (Hämäläinen & Johnson, 2012. Page 135-138). Saukamappee recalls that their battles with enemies were more even sided…

Certainly, residential schools mark the loss of culture, tradition, language, way of life, and religion amongst Indigenous people. Boyden capitulates this feeling in one single line, “whenever they spoke Cree out loud, something inside them flinched tense for a beating” (187). Physical violence and emotional abuse tactics of shame were issued whenever a child referenced their traditional culture. The schools ultimate goal was to assimilate the “savages…

As social workers identifying their own stories, being a great starting point in discovering personal knowledge and understanding and how this is integrated into professional knowledge, insight and experience (Cree and Davidson, 2000). Opening a safe space to challenge previously held attitudes, beliefs and values, allows for a ‘deep learning’ from one another, through dialogue. To critically reflect on different ways of knowing/other ways of seeing can be a rewarding experience. Reflecting on…

Maria Campbell’s Stories of the Road Allowance People provides the audience with engaging stories while providing insight into the histories of the Indigenous peoples. This book is more than just a history book or an entertainment piece, it draws the reader into the life and culture of those whose stories it shares. By providing the reader with exquisite art to accompany the stories, Campbell is able to give the reader as full of an experience of First Nations and Metis culture that a book…

Americans, rather than revealing them as “savages”, they are shown as civilized tribes people living accordingly to traditional culture separate from the general population. Jarmusch’s film contains hidden un-translated Native American languages such as Cree, Blackfoot and Makah. Even inside jokes directed at a native American audience. Jarmusch comments of this effect: “I didn't want it subtitled. I wanted it to be a little gift for those people who understand the language. … Makah was…

Women and children are especially vulnerable to sex trafficking because of their experience of powerlessness, poverty, gender-based discrimination, and the history of sexual and physical violence (Viviene Cree, 2017). Traffickers employ a variety of methods to recruit their victims. They prey on weakness and vulnerability and may use coercion, extortion, threats, physical and emotional abuse, or they can manipulate and seduce their victims into compliance…

“The great white way” of standard English, Dumont writes in “The Devil’s Language,” “has measured, judged and assessed me.” What’s ironic is that a number of the poems stay within the tidy confines of its “picket fence sentences/ and manicured paragraphs”; without a doubt, Dumont can talk that talk. She experiments with several syntactic styles, including the slangy, offhand colloquial and the honed lyric. She gives narrative prose poems a whirl too. But the most memorable poems are those in…