First Nations

from the recruiting stations of Canadian army. Although many of their rights were deprived and were restricted from joining the Canadian Armies, their notable contributions and the willingness to fight for the country that impacted Canada during the First World War could not be undervalued. In August 1914, as Great Britain declared war on Germany, Canada was then legally…

Since time immemorial, First Nations lived throughout Canada. They had their own culture and political systems. The way they lived changed after colonists took their land and tried to assimilate their communities into Canadian society. The life and culture of the Frist Nation tribes was barbaric and savage in the eyes of the Canadian people and the government. The government set up residential schools with the purpose of assimilating First Nations children into the white anglophone dominated…

Aboriginals through assimilation. At first, enfranchisement was meant to be done through volunteering, however, with only one person volunteering to do so, the government started to unilaterally enfranchise First Nations people. In 1867, with the creation of the Indian Act the Gradual Civilizations Act of 1857 and the Gradual Enfranchisement of 1869 were added to it. The Indian Act was a combination of various laws, that created a set of regulations that controlled First Nations.…

of these consultations was ignored. I agree with the White Papers ideas of being able to have full, free and non-discriminatory participation of First Nations within…

English and to believe Catholic religion. In the books The Secret Path and Sugar Falls we can see two different stories about the experience of first nation childs in these schools. Loneliness and discrimination are powerful themes in these two stories. In The Secret Path the theme of loneliness is demonstrated through the image were Chain, a first nation kid uses 6 matches while escaping from a residential school. When one sees this image believes that when Chain was escaping the only thing…

1. Canadian Heritage Minute: Nelly McClung a. What particularities from this article are portrayed in the Canadian Heritage Minutes? The Canadian Heritage Minutes video portrayed several part from this article. the first part showed, McClung arguing with premier for women 's right to vote. Second part showed, her stage a mock parliament attacking vote for men. The last part showed, women having right to vote and show McClung meet premier in polling station. b. What is…

It’s no secret the Canadian government have been negligent towards the first nation community for the past 150 years. They have been inattentive to issues such as education (residential school), health care, economy, social justice (missing and murdered indigenous woman) and most of all the water crisis. The United Nations have declared access to clean drinking water a basic human right. Did you know Two-thirds of all First Nation communities in Canada have been under at least one drinking water…

In this Case Study, Williston explains that the residential school system deprives First Nations of their language and identity. This practice of shaming, is a political attempt to make the rejection of land rights easier through less opposition. As Williston says “to deprive them of the language is to deprive them of the sense of place that had defined them for thousands of years” (245). The way Frist Nations use language is inseparably linked to their knowledge of nature and the world. The…

authorities shall not force members of the Ojibwa nation to define their plans on land use as it has done before. The undersigned Chiefs and warriors, on their behalf and on behalf of the peoples of the said first nation have agreed that the communities of this first nation shall the right to make their own plans on how they shall use their land resources and identify the issues, the challenges as well as the opportunities that are of concern to the Ojibwa nation. The government shall therefore…

what truly happened in the past. The research question will be answered by exploring and comparing the First…