First Nations

Indian Residential School is a system that was placed among Aboriginal people by Canadian so that they can adapt to the European culture. The point of such a tutoring framework was to constrain native individuals into a pilgrim society. This was accomplished by wiping out their past ethnic and social affiliations and exchanging them with Europeans ones. Driven by evangelists energies trusted it was vital for natives’ Indian children to assimilate into the western tradition. If not parents tend…

relationship of the first explorers and the First Nation can be viewed in the article. Aporta compares present-day trails and place names with those used by Inuit in the past by examining written documents and maps and conducts interviews with Inuit elders. In class, we examined and learned how the Indigenous people have helped guide the first explorers and learned how Aboriginal people presented their views through oral history. Some maps analyzed for this article are produced by the first…

said in 1941 when he saw it. He shouted as he sliced back through the wake, "What a beauty! What a beauty!” (Kogawa 25). In this sense, readers truly see a symbol of how Canada viewed people of different cultures than what had been dominant in the nation, contrary to its perception outside its borders, as these fleets would ultimately symbolize the pain the Nakane and Kato families deal with. This also occurs in other scenes even much later than…

- The racism that arises from these stereotypes has permeated the health care systems in several ways. The first is in the inability to see that Indigenous people continue to suffer from residential schools and the ‘sixties scoop’. Additional and extensive support for these groups is still needed in order to reach an “equal” healthcare system. The second is in…

Jamestown wanted the natives to become vassals of James I, the French just wanted to trade while Jamestown wanted the natives to become part of their nation. In addition, unlike the French, they ended up fighting with the tribes that were helping to support them. However, in many other ways the Jamestown colonists were similar to the French. First, they were looking to trade and work with the natives. As the text mentions, the colonists relied on corn from local tribes to survive. They…

or neglect them completely. As a result, First Nations had to abandon their culture, language, traditions and had to face discrimination in Canadian society. Moreover, the trauma did not end there but it caused many other lingering issues such as high school dropout rates, substance abuse, health problems, and comparing to non-native population of Canada, very low employment rate (Zapotichna, 2015, p. 98, para. 3). At the advent of colonization, First Nation leaders did not ask the educational…

The Trudeau Government anticipates change in the foreign policy. As well as, change for Canada in the international realm. On October 19, 2015 there was a highly contested election in Canada. This election had a significant liberal victory and a high voter turnout. The parliament composition was taken by the new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau plans on reinventing Canada’s government and following in his father’s footsteps. Trudeau says “The future’s going to be better, and this…

abuse is a blood stain on Canadian culture and government. The government has made steps to atone and reconcile for the destruction it brought upon the First Nations community, however, I do not think enough has been done or ever will be done as long as the oppressor’s government institution is in place. It will ultimately be left up to the First Nations people to come together as a unit to rebuild the structure of their community. Indian Residential School System The Indian residential schools…

them. They argued that because it was unique to aboriginal people, they were allowed to cut down those trees because it was one of their religious or cultural rights. In the end the court deemed the Huron innocent. For years since 1701, when the first treaties were created, aboriginal people have been taking advantage of the 1982 Constitution Act and multiple aboriginal treaties. After the colonization of North America the Canadian Government, known as the Crown, and the Aboriginal people have…

November 16, 1885, after he was found guilty of high treason. Sir John A. Macdonald was a Scottish man born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 10, 1815. During MacDonald's lifetime, he accomplished multiple triumphs. Some of these include being the first Prime Minister of Canada,…