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While this may be a controversial statement being that Cree Law was established first, in a 21st century society there must a written documentation to refer to, allowing citizens all of types to understand why which laws are put in place and which laws aren’t in a Cree Law. At the same time, values of both systems are similar but just…

and it would have been a clearer argument, however again, this theme was lost to the lack of relation to the rest of the article. This theme of “writing in a tree” would have been a powerful demonstration of the how essential language is to the First Nations people had it not been over shadowed by the many other themes he…

In class we have discussed numerous rhetoric’s from across Shakespeare’s plays. Within them, the characters are constantly trying to persuade other characters into doing certain things. Shakespeare gives many of his characters very different methods of persuasion. Sometimes it’s planting false information into someone’s mind like Iago in Othello, who manipulated the title character to kill his wife. Even so, there are times when the rhetoric fails and so did the characters that gave them. In the…

strategies from the student. We must also validate the student’s culture and support their language for a minimum of 5 years. “An additive bilingual situation is where the addition of a second language and culture is unlikely to replace or displace the first language and culture” (Baker, 2001, pg. 58). Additive bilingual programs purpose is to educate the child…

ABOUT THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS The Chippewa indians are a large North American tribe. They speak the Algonquian language. The Algonquian language is a music-like language. Aaniin (pronounced ah-neen) is a friendly greeting, while Miigwech (pronounced mee-gwetch) means “Thank you.” The Chippewa pursued a nomadic life. They live in dome-shaped houses of 15-20 ft. These houses are called wigwams. These were built by women and given a small hole in the roof to allow smoke to escape, just like tepees.…

Egyptian society such as government benefits such as section 8.0 housing, welfare aid otherwise known as food stamps and Financial assistance for education. Egypt being. Third world country is very hard leave and live in another. Country especially a first world…

The vanishing Canadian is first and foremost, a recollection of White and native relations after the natives degradation. Particularly, the majority of it focused on artistic relations. But perhaps the most pressing aspect is what sells in our culture. Rather than the white consumer wanting authenticity, and education, they want exploitative entertainment. It is for this reason that artists like Paul Cane gained immense respect and notoriety, while others such as Edmund Morris died without…

Canada has not always been the prime example of a human rights haven. From roughly 1884 to as late as 1996, the Canadian government operated so called “Indian Residential Schools”. In all, 150,000 native Canadian children belonging to various tribes were forcibly removed from their homes and taken to various residential schools across Canada in a savage attempt to assimilate them into Canadian society. The planned agenda was to teach them values of the Christian faith, and teach them how to…

the First Nations education system and try to ignore their faults. The First Nations education is in crisis because it is poorly funded and cannot catch the provincial schools’ academic achievement. The federal government found this gap between the First Nations schools and the provincial schools but it doesn’t input the same level of financial support, instead, the federal government wants the First Nations schools provide the same level of education as the provincial schools. So the First…

Indigenous Credit Requirement: Good or Bad? Our University is on Treaty One territory, on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people and the homeland of the Metis Nation. Who Knew that? Most people have a very vague if any knowledge about Indigenous people which is why the Truth and Reconciliation Commission encourages including Indigenous studies as part of the curriculum. But there comes the question, ‘Is it fair to make it mandatory'. A number of Canadian post-secondary institutions…