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    Lejac Residential School

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    Residential schools established after the 1880s. Christian churches and Canadian government originally conceived the residential schools. In all residential schools, everything was structured, and children had to follow all rules without regret. We watched a few videos, and the survivor that we chose to research about is Luille Mattess who attended Legac Residential School when she was six years old. We chose Luille because we both thought that she was the one who was telling the story with…

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    Ambush Gulch Colonialism

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    a lot of their traditions since the Europeans started many wars and broke many promises they made to the First Nations. First Nations have been mistreated ever since Europeans invaded their land but not many films depict the Europeans as the evil people, and The Battle of Elderbush Gulch is one of them. It depicts the First Nations as animalistic in nature and uncivilized beings, unlike the Americans who are normal and civilized humans. This ideology is based on prejudice and is very unfair…

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    addressing our culture and prejudice against our indigenous Australians. Picture this. You are an indigenous Australian. You have just been told you are pregnant or your wife or partner has. You are told your maternal death rate is 3 time bigger than non-indigenous females. Nine months later and you have just given birth to your child. Well done, you survived. Now imagine that your child’s risk of mortality is double compared to non-indigenous children. They are four times more likely…

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    Over-representation of Indigenous children within the Canadian child welfare system CURRENT SITUATION: There continues to be a high over-representation of Indigenous children within the Canadian child welfare system. According to Statistics Canada, approximately 7% of the Canadian population consists of Aboriginal children. (StatCan, 2011.) However, Aboriginal children represented almost half of the population within the child welfare system at 48% (StatCan, 2011.) The population of Indigenous…

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    Indian Bread Thesis

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    that this recipe was not written by a Canadian Indigenous person, as Indian is not their true identity. It makes one wonder, where the foods one eats comes from, as this is not something consumers think about when in the market. This is in addition to the acts of colonization that lurk on Canadian land, and was vividly taking place around the publication of the Indian Bread recipe. Was this recipe, then, a form of appreciating the breads of the Indigenous communities that helped sustain the…

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    Still dealing with ass program. Color grading indigenous. Colin jones. Auber Neville. Solve Aboriginal problem, breeding out. Suicide rate? P1: Control over indigenous community The plan of assimilating all indigenous people into white society Light colored children were removed from their families for the sake of breeding out the indigenous people. P2: Identify single identity The spread of the colonists menat they were living closer to indigenous populations which meant half cast babies.…

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    NAIDOC Week Case Study

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    activities that supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’s connection to the land and the sea. This case study will focus on the latent opportunities and challenges faced in the formative stages of learning, respecting and celebrating Indigenous Australian Peoples by developing meaningful relationships; being reflective; recognising difference; and making research relevant. LEARN: Currently, none of my co-workers have any history with NAIDOC, therefore, it is important for us to…

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    Cultural Awareness

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    Torres Strait people, known as Indigenous people of Australia. Different factors responsible for chronic illnesses in Indigenous population will be explained and how nurses can help in conquering the gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous population in relation to health. Emphasis will be on how ethnocentric human nature can affect health adversely. It will also discuss how sexual health is neglected in Indigenous population and how by good communication skills nurses can make Indigenous…

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    Participants expressed a wide range of concerns including unfounded detention, detention without the detainee understanding the reasons for detention, loss of personal reputation, lack of proof and therefore injustices, and the suggestion that people may be exposed to police brutality. The overwhelming majority of respondents believed this law gave police too much power and 78% of respondents would be personally concerned if the equivalent law were introduced into South Australia. The survey…

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    the goal of assimilation. The general public was not accepting of Indigenous people in their society and Indigenous people, even children, were resistant to abandoning their culture. While removals stopped by the early 1970s, it was not until the 1980s that policy changes were made and there was a reappraisal on how to handle both issues of assimilation and child welfare (Sorry Day and The Stolen Generations, 2015). The report further detailed instances of abuse post-removal. Many boys were…

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